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Re: svn diff --summarize

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_xbc.nu>
Date: 2006-02-03 16:59:16 CET

Molle Bestefich wrote:
> Branko Čibej wrote:
>
>> I mean that appending a hard-coded slash to a path is broken, period. We
>> have platform-specific defined constants for the path separator.
>>
>
> Doesn't all newer Windows versions support the use of forward-slash in
> place of backslash?
>
No, "Windows" does not. Many Windows applications do (including Subversion).

But that's irrelevant to the discussion. Subversion behaves like a
native app Windows, it uses backslashes in all its output, so "svn ls"
shouldn't be an exception.

> If forward slash works on Windows anyway, it could be that using that
> would spare some trouble if someone later on want to use a backslash
> in the output as an escape character or sth.
>
Escape character for what? To be interpreted later by whom?

-- Brane

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