Ulrich Eckhardt wrote on Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 11:34:03 +0200: > Am 18.10.2011 10:02, schrieb Daniel Shahaf: > >Johan Corveleyn wrote on Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 09:48:46 +0200: > >! is special in unix shells. But ^./ for the wc root? > > The caret ("^") is special in other shells, namely cmd.exe. Also, > wasn't the caret already used to refer to the repository root?
^/ refers to the repository root. ^./ is not special and re-uses the character that has learnt to escape and gotten used to escaping. http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3883