David Dyer-Bennet wrote on Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 09:30:45 -0600: > On Tue, December 7, 2010 09:03, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > > David Dyer-Bennet wrote on Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 08:44:28 -0600: > >> And, in any case, VISUAL is a public interface, and I wonder how many > >> other applications would break if I put that kind of thing into > >> VISUAL. > > > > Morale: don't use paths with spaces. > > Yes, that would be simpler. But as I said in my initial post, I first > discovered this on Windows under Cygwin. Avoiding "c:/Program Files" > and "c:/Documents and Settings/david.dyer-bennet/My Documents" > involves contortions and leaves you putting things in unusual places. >
Just create a symlink in cygwin? > Linux defines spaces as valid characters in paths and filenames, so > people are going to try to use them. And Subversion does support > Windows. > Newline, tab, and colon are also valid in on linux, and I'm sure some parts of Subversion will not work properly if you use them. (Do we URI-encode paths in svn:mergeinfo and 'svn diff'?) > (Spelling nit, no flame intended: "moral"; not "morale". They're > both real words with quite different meanings, so it's of value to > keep them distinct. And now I have no doubt guaranteed 3 basic > language mistakes of my own somewhere in this message :-) .) Thanks for the correction; appreciated. (Shouldn't you have spelled out 'three'? Just yesterday I found a bug related to using 'two' instead of '2'.)
