Eli Barzilay <eli@barzilay.org> writes:
> On May 31, Eli Barzilay wrote:
> > (submitting an issue, FWIW.)
>
> OK, so it seems like this is impossible without registration, which
> will not go through immediately. I'll post it here instead...
Yeah, I wish it were possible for us to set the website to
automatically approve all requests for 'Observer' role (or to simply
not require it for issue filings).
> It seems like there is no way to escape a real `@' character which is
> part of a file name. Looking at the code in
> "subversion/libsvn_subr/opt.c", this behavior hard wired with no way
> to avoid it. It also looks like standard escaping will not be
> convenient since it's only needed for the last `@' in a filename.
>
> The way to avoid this currently is to append a `@BASE' to the path.
> If nothing else is changed, then its probably a good idea to mention
> this in some docs. It would be better to actually come up with a
> proper solution which can be used in scripts etc. I guess that having
> a rule that the `@' is interpreted as part of a path if that path
> exists is impossible when considering URLs.
+1 on both.
The workaround should be documented, but the more intuitive solution
would be for "@" to quote itself. That's what many people probably
expect anyway.
> So how about making an empty peg revision be used as the default?
> Then the only escape that will be needed to guarantee proper behavior
> in scripts is to use "path@".
We should also do that, IMHO.
> Another thing that seems like it should be working is to use "path/".
> It's questionable (IMO) whether this should be working, but it seems
> to be working for plain file paths. However, with a `@', it fails
> with the same
>
> svn proplist foo@bar/
> svn: Syntax error parsing revision 'bar'
>
> which seems strange since the code in the above file look like it
> stops as soon as it hits a `/'.
I don't think we should be allowing trailing '/' on files, but that's
sort of a separate issue.
Do you have Observer role now? Would you mind filing the "@" issue,
and if you're really feeling squirrely, the "/" issue too? If so,
please refer to this mail thread from both issues.
Thanks for the report & analysis,
-Karl
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Received on Wed Jun 1 17:51:34 2005