On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 10:36 PM Daniel Shahaf wrote:
>
> Stefan Sperling wrote on Thu, 26 Mar 2020 21:02 +00:00:
> > The ultimate goal here is to allow users to type less characters when
> > starting merges. Scripting tab-completion for SVN URL arguments into
> > your favourite shell would also
Daniel Shahaf:
> Here are our notes about this from back when the ^/ syntax was
> added:
>
> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/subversion/trunk/notes/cli-repo-root-relative-support.txt?view=markup#l42
It takes care of cmd.exe, so ^^/ on Windows was a deliberate
tradeoff on your part.
> Tilde is
Anton Shepelev wrote on Fri, 27 Mar 2020 01:39 +0300:
> Daniel Shahaf:
>
> > Yes, this feature won't happen unless someone invests time in
> > making it happen -- but let's not discourage people from
> > discussing feature ideas even if they may not personally have
> > time to implement them.
Daniel Shahaf:
> > I had already written about an extension of the caret syntax
> > to take the current working directory into account, so that,
> > being in svn/trunk/project/xml/ , one does not have to type
> >
> > svn cp ^/trunk/project/xml/1.xml ^/trunk/project/xml/2.xml
> >
> > but can
Anton Shepelev wrote on Sat, 28 Mar 2020 00:41 +00:00:
> Daniel Shahaf:
> > Tilde is also special to some shells, at least in the sh/csh
> > «~username» syntax and in zsh's «foo~bar» syntax (also part of
> > EXTENDED_GLOB);
>
> That is why I proposed a double `~' -- not perfect, of course, but
>
Anton Shepelev wrote on Fri, 27 Mar 2020 23:40 +00:00:
> Daniel Shahaf:
> > but in any case, this sounds quite reasonable. How about
> > assigning it the syntax «^./» (caret, dot, slash)? That way we
> > only have one "special" leading character to worry about.
>
> That ^ character must be
