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Re: Support character classes in glob authz rules

From: Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de>
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2018 09:30:53 +0100

On Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 08:15:24AM +0000, Julian Foad wrote:
> Branko Čibej wrote:
> > The proposed change in the parser is only enabled for parsing authz and
> > global group files, other Subversion configuration files will use the
> > current semantics.
>
> These sorts of quirks tend to make a system hard to maintain in the long run. What if we find another case where we'd like to depart from that parsing? How far would we go?
>
> What alternative solution could we consider?

Some sort of escaping mechanism might work.
Received on 2018-12-03 09:31:15 CET

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