Vlad Georgescu wrote:
> Blair Zajac wrote:
>> relative to repository root
>> ^branches/1.4.x
>
> This is somewhat bikesheddy, but I'd very much prefer '//' to '^' for
> this purpose, for at least three reasons:
>
> 1) ^ is not really a forbidden character in paths, so again, there's
> potential for ambiguity
> 2) // is easier to type and feels less 'magic'; this is important if we
> are going to use the same syntax on the command line
> 3) there are already people building wrappers around svn with exactly
> this syntax: http://code.google.com/p/gvn/
4) On Windows' cmd.exe interpreter ^ is an escape character, like \ on a
real shell. So documentation will need to do gymnastics like:
"
Syntax:
(Linux/Unix/MacOSX): ^branches/1.4.x
(Windows e.g. 1): ^^branches/1.4.x
(Windows e.g. 2): "^branches/1.4.x"
"
-Nathan
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Received on Thu Jul 19 17:36:59 2007