Philip Martin wrote:
> Philip Martin <philip_at_codematters.co.uk> writes:
>
>> ordinary non-escape character. In the past using an svn:externals
>> like "a\b URL" would produce a directory called "a\b" (that's a
>> 3-character name) while a quick test indicates that it now appears to
>> create a directory called "ab". To get "a\b" the svn:externals needs
>> to be changed to "a\\b URL". I don't know if anyone is using such
>> names in svn:externals, and I don't think they would not work on
>> Windows, but change could break existing working copies and there
>
> Typo: I meant to write "I don't think they would work on Windows" but
> it now occurs to me that it might create a directory "b" in a
> directory "a". Perhaps somebody with a Windows machine could try it?
Yes, using a local directory "a\b" in Windows causes Subversion to create
directories "a" and "a\b", with the "a\b" as the external working copy.
By way of a solution, I was *going* to suggest that '\' be *only* allowed to
escape the quotation mark character. That would mean recognizing as magical
only the sequence '\"'. But since you can't have a quotation mark in the
name of a directory on Windows (and it's highly unlikely that someone would
want to have such in Unix, either) we can reasonably assume that for a
sequence like 'foo\"bar' the user couldn't really have meant that he/she
wanted to flesh out some external in some subdir named '"bar'. But then, if
we've gotten as far as to assume that users don't want quotation marks in
their path names, why would we need an escape mechanism for the quotation
mark at all? :-\
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Received on 2008-10-04 08:03:09 CEST