Re: [Show][Show] Re: svn commit: r19299 - branches/nonxml-entries/subversion/libsvn_wc

Malcolm Rowe writes:
> On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 02:56:35PM -0700, Garrett Rooney wrote:
>
> But that does make me wonder why we're bothering to escape more than the
> minimum (0x0a, maybe 0x0d, '|' and '\'). It's not like introducing a TAB
> (SOH, STX, whatever) character in the file will break it.

Simplicty, and since control characters are extremely uncommon anyway
(see another mail in this thread), it is no big deal.

> Peter, two questions for you:
>
> 1. Is 0x00 allowed in a field? (no, I hope)

Correct. I clarified that. That would break everything!

> 2. What's the end-of-line terminator, just LF? (on Windows too, right?)

Yes, as currently specified. It simplifies parsing slightly
(especially if we want to read the file in chunks), but it could
easily be changed to use the native eol marker and support all CRLF,
LF and CR if someone really wants it.

Regards,
//Peter

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