On 07.12.2017 17:42, Doug Robinson wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 7:09 PM, Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name > <mailto:d...@daniel.shahaf.name>> wrote: > > Evgeny Kotkov wrote on Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 00:12:55 +0300: > > Unfortunately, on Windows both `--search M*` and (quoted) > `--search "M*"` > > would expand the asterisk. While this is not the default shell > behavior, > > currently it's enabled for svn and a couple of other binaries by > linking > > to setargv.obj. In turn, this probably means the command-line > client > > users on Windows could get quite unexpected results when using the > > `--search ARG` syntax. > > Isn't there some escaping syntax, «svn log --search "M^*"» or > something along > these lines? > > > Apparently > not: > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47512829/is-it-possible-to-quote-escape-command-line-arguments-on-windows-while-linking-s
Yes, it's a pity. I _almost_ regret not doing the grunt work for glob expansion on Windows back in the day. But now that I'm not developing on Windows, I don't regret it at all. :D -- Brane
