Thanks for the comments
2009/7/27 Julian Foad <julianfoad_at_btopenworld.com>:
> Making the escape character configurable seems overly complex - not
> complexity of implementation, but the sort of complexity that means any
> time you store or automatically generate svnmucc commands you would then
> have to keep track also of which character was used, and ensure the same
> character is used when interpreting them.
This was done very deliberately so as not to break any existing
scripts. The idea is that if this went in then when the next version
was released everyone using svnmucc could just carry on as they were.
The "-c" makes it an opt-in argument.
> In the proposed solution, is there any way to provide an argument that
> ends with the escape character? In other words, if I choose '@' as the
> escape character, how could I specify the filename 'tempfile.@@@' as an
> argument? When I am a human user, I can probably choose an escape
> character that isn't found at the end of any argument, but if I am a
> script invoking svnmucc on arbitrary file names then I'd like a way to
> pass them safely.
No there isn't - i wanted to avoid any extra complexity in parsing the
lines. This way it's a simple test of the last character. Again as it
stands this is an opt-in function and so if you're writing a script
then you would choose the character you want. You can even just put a
space character at the end of the line which lets the @ get through
(and then the space gets's trimmed off - a bit esoteric though I
realise).
2009/7/27 Geoff Rowell <geoff.rowell_at_gmail.com>:
> Julian Foad wrote:
>> It's difficult to pick an escape character. I would tend to choose '\'
>> because it is so commonly used for this purpose in Unix-like systems. It
>> could be a bit awkward on Windows, but actually the "put" action is the
>> only svnmucc action that takes a local file name, and you could assume
>> that Windows users don't use svnmucc much anyway, so that could still be
>> good. If you choose '@', as in your example, although it has meaning in
>> the regular svn client I can't see it being used much in svnmucc input
>> so that could also be good.
>>
> I disagree with Julian's assertion that Windows users don't use svnmucc.
> Several people in my Windows-based office use it (and could use this
> feature). However, I can't see a problem with backslash as a continuation
> character. I'd prefer it over an "at" symbol.
We're actually only using windows here :) This was actually the main
reason for not using "\" to avoid confusion. However with the "-c"
argument to people can chose what they want.
Cheers,
Purple
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