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The problem with using a ‘\’ would be that you break the ‘\’ character in
existing files to fix ‘]’.
Things might be simpler when defining that lines that start with ‘[‘ and end
with ‘]’ should parse everything in between as section markers.
But then, I don’t know how that affects the current comment syntax.
We should really check the source before making a decision.
Bert
From: Jason Heeris [mailto:jason.hee...@gmail.com]
Sent: donderdag 12 juli 2012 11:37
To: Johan Corveleyn
Cc: Matthew Pounsett; users@subversion.apache.org
Subject: Re: Square brackets in file names and authz (in VisualSVN 2.5.5)
On 12 July 2012 17:28, Johan Corveleyn <jcor...@gmail.com> wrote:
I think the only character that causes problems is ']' (which ends the
section name parsing). It seems not too hard to change that parsing
function to make it handle some kind of escape sequence for ']'
(perhaps ']]'). Would you care to write a patch [2]?
I doubt I'll have time to write a patch any time in the next few days, but I'll
file the bug now and take a look at writing a patch next week.
I'd suggest avoiding inconsistencies like the double-]. I certainly wouldn't
think to try that. It might be better to use a backslash sequence, or simply
capture everything up to the *last* "]" on a line instead of the first. I don't
think that would be more complex than needing to detect a "]]" ...but then, I
haven't written the patch :P
— Jason
