Re: possible bug with @ in directory name

On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 08:43, Bassam Tabbara <bassam_at_symform.com> wrote:
> I'm using VisualSVN 1.6.3 server with Collabnet 1.5.5 SVN client. The
> following seems to fail:
>
>
>
> mkdir abc@
>
> svn add abc@
>
> mkdir abc@\def
>
> svn add abc@\def
>
> copy c:\windows\notepad.exe abc@\def\ #add any binary file here
>
> svn add abc@\def\notepad.exe
>
>
>
> The last command fails with the following error:
>
> svn: Can't open file '.svn\tmp\props\abc@\def\notepad.exe.svn-work': The
> system cannot find the path specified.
>

The final @ in a path is understood as introducing a peg revision.
This has come up before. I couldn't find the thread I'm remembering,
but this snippet explains it pretty well:

On 2008-05-12, Karl Fogel wrote:
>
> Hmmm. The way we quote an '@'-sign in a path is by putting a blank
> peg rev at the end, for example:
>
> /path/to/a/file/with/a/real/@sign
>
> would be escaped like this:
>
> /path/to/a/file/with/a/real/@sign@

// ben

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