On Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 08:15:24AM +0000, Julian Foad wrote: > Branko Čibej wrote: > > The proposed change in the parser is only enabled for parsing authz and > > global group files, other Subversion configuration files will use the > > current semantics. > > These sorts of quirks tend to make a system hard to maintain in the long run. > What if we find another case where we'd like to depart from that parsing? How > far would we go? > > What alternative solution could we consider?
Some sort of escaping mechanism might work.