On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 10:15:36PM +0100, Bert Huijben wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: woensdag 2 februari 2011 21:08 > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: svn commit: r1066604 - /subversion/trunk/subversion/svn/main.c > > > > Author: stsp > > Date: Wed Feb 2 20:07:43 2011 > > New Revision: 1066604 > > > > URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1066604&view=rev > > Log: > > * subversion/svn/main.c > > (svn_cl__cmd_table): On Windows, escape the caret in merge help text > > examples > > using the ^/ URL shortcut notation. This is required by cmd.exe. > > E.g. 'svn merge ^/trunk' becomes 'svn merge ^^/trunk' > > The same could be done for one example in 'svn help switch', but that > > would make getopt_test 7 fail and I have no way to run tests on Windows. > > This patch most likely breaks localization of this text and I'm not sure if > we should really change the examples to show the quoting. If this is a > cmd.exe requirement I don't think we should perform the escaping as there are > more ways to run svn than just from cmd. >
I was thinking of people who copy-paste the examples onto the command line. I suppose people who aren't using cmd.exe are more likely to know what they need to type than others. Well, I had to revert it anyway because it broke the Windows build. Sorry about the noise. > Adding some note suggesting the quoting after the main help text might be > more appropriate and this would be easier to localize. Agreed. Stefan
