"RFC822-style"

The documentation for dump files (
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/notes/dump-load-format.txt)
states that headers are RFC822-style. RFC822 describes several complex
behaviors for headers that are not used (and probably not supported) by
SVN. Perhaps the reference to RFC822 could be dropped from the document and
a little bit more clarity could be added to the description (e.g. "A key
and a value, separated by a colon. Whitespace on either end of the key and
value is ignored.")

This would make it easier for implementers to write accurate parsers.
Received on 2013-04-16 18:25:42 CEST