Re: Does svn merge --reintegrate ^URL syntax really work ?

LiuYan 刘į ” wrote on Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 00:19:54 -0700:
>
> Thank you Erik,
>
> 1. I think I got the cause:
> I use Subversion in windows system, it's a little different to linux/unix
> system:
> The ^ character is a special character in command prompt window or batch
> file. the ^ character and it's following characters MUST be quoted:

Or doubled: ^^/trunk . And this is documented.

> E:\Incoming\svntest\calc\branches\new-branch>svn list ^/
> svn: '\' is not a working copy
> E:\Incoming\svntest\calc\branches\new-branch>svn list "^/"
> calc/
> paint/
> tools/
>
>
> 2. But,
> beause ^ means "the URL of the repository's root directory”, why svn-book
> use ^/trunk instead of ^/calc/trunk ?
>

It seems the book is inconsistent on whether 'calc' is a repository or
a directory inside a repository. Could you report this to the svnbook
list please?
Received on 2010-09-10 13:17:26 CEST