Hi just thought I would follow this up.
The reply from Julian seem to be last one in this thread.
Do you plan to incorporate the suggested changes?
Gavin.
On 12/08/2009, at 09:59 , Julian Foad wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 17:01 +0100, Purple Streak wrote:
>> 2009/7/31 Geoff Rowell <geoff.rowell_at_gmail.com>:
>>> Philip Martin <philip_at_codematters.co.uk> writes:
>>>> When '\' escaping was added to svn:externals it changed how paths
>>>> were
>>>> interpreted by the command line client. That provides some sort of
>>>> precedent for simply changing the behaviour of svnmucc. I'd
>>>> prefer to
>>>> see '\' as an escape character without any new command line option.
>>>> I'd want enough escaping so that '\\' at the end of a line gave a
>>>> literal '\'.
>>>
>>> I agree with Philip and Julian. As long as an escape is supported,
>>> I don't
>>> see the need for another command line argument. I'd prefer to have
>>> backslash
>>> as the continuation character.
>>
>> Sorry - but this _will_ break existing scripts on windows so I'm
>> really not happy having I happen just by default. Also making
>> windows users have to adjust there .bat files to double up \
>> characters in paths is also not making it easy. On Unix this is the
>> normal escape - but windows users don't have perl/python by default
>> and a lot just use .bat files which don't have much processing power.
>
> Yes.
>
>> So I think we have to have the -c option both to enable the behaviour
>> and to optionally specifiy a different character (I don't think this
>> adds any complexity to usage - it's quite simple to follow and makes
>> it more flexible).
>
> I agree it would be quite simple to follow. The kind of "complexity" I
> mentioned is the (small) amount of additional complexity a
> configurable
> escape character would bring to the Subversion universe: for example,
> you couldn't so easily share svnmucc script files with other people;
> and
> a syntax-highlighting editor for svnmucc script files couldn't work
> properly unless you also tell it what escape character you're using.
> But
> I think that's OK if the configurability is important, and it seems to
> be important. Or at least I agree it's useful to be able to use a
> character other than backslash.
>
>> The escaping for whatever character used would be
>> nice I agree, but you'd only really want it at the end of the line
>> which would be odd, so you'd have to have it all the way along which
>> makes the code more complex than it needs to be imo.
>
> I agree with Philip that '\\' at the end of a line (assuming the
> escape
> character is '\') should mean a literal '\' at the end of the line,
> and
> no continuation. Further, '\\\' at the end of a line should mean '\'
> and
> continuation, '\\\\' should mean '\\', '\\\\\' should mean '\\' and
> continuation, etc.
>
> Without that ability to "escape the escape character", there would
> be no
> way for a program to generate svnmucc scripts with arbitrary text in
> property values and, while not the end of the world, that would be a
> shame.
>
> I don't see much extra code complexity in making the escape
> character be
> escapable wherever it appears (not just at the end of a line), and I
> think that would be best.
>
> - Julian
>
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