Re: [PATCH] comment stripping in config files

Justin Erenkrantz writes:
> On 4/27/06, Peter N. Lundblad <peter@famlundblad.se> wrote:
> > > Do you have an example of this?
> > >
> > You mean that no one ever needs # characters in their values, ever?
>
> And, they expected # to work?

The one who wrote our own config template file certainly did:-)

> > > We already have # as the comment field in the rest of the file. It's
> > > pretty standard practice for Unix shells to treat everything after a #
> > > as a comment. -- justin
> > >
> > Yes. The questions is about compatibility.. I'd rather like us to
> > fail than silently breaking peoples config files.
>
> I'm not sure of any case where # would have been legal - that's what
> I'm curious about. -- justin
>

global-ignores (uses it in the template file)
passwords (in .subversion/servers and the svnserve password file)
...maybe other places.

Best,
//Peter

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Received on Thu Apr 27 21:45:55 2006