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Re: UNS: Re: svnmucc

From: Blair Zajac <blair_at_orcaware.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 07:47:38 -0800

On Nov 18, 2013, at 7:33 AM, Andreas Krey <a.krey_at_gmx.de> wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Nov 2013 07:11:40 +0000, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>> Brother, unweaving the quotes is its own problem. You see, most
>> filesystems allow single quotes and double quotes in the filenames
>> themselves. Hilarity will ensue.
>
> Quoting is a solved problem, including quoting quotes.
>
> Using newlines a command argument separator because there may be spaces
> in files names is a regression from accepted CLI design, and doesn't
> even solve the problem of newlines in file name which filesystems also
> allow. Besides, hilarity also ensues there when a file happens to be named
> 'rm’.

svnmucc handles arbitrary long command line arguments with spaces if they are quoted. This is in regards to the -X command line option.

Blair
Received on 2013-11-18 16:48:25 CET

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