On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 07:07:41AM -0700, tstone-barcard wrote: > The SVN Book uses a path syntax throughout the narrative that prefixes > a "^". I'm continually baffled by the use of "^" in the svn-book > (http://svnbook.red-bean.com) because I cannot get it to work. > > What is this shortcut? When does it work? Does it need to be set?
"^/" expands to the value of the repository root. svn info prints the repository root as well -- that URL is what will be used: $ svn info | grep Root Repository Root: file:///tmp/svn-sandbox/repos $ svn ls file:///tmp/svn-sandbox/repos branch/ trunk/ $ svn ls ^/ branch/ trunk/ > I've tried using it, but it never works (v1.6.3). It should just work on Linux/Mac. On windows, ^ is a special character for the cmd shell, so you must escape it: use ^^/ instead of ^/ Stefan
