[svnbook] r4011 committed - Finish issue #70 ("Basic syntax of WC paths should not be buried in a...
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Revision: 4011
Author: cmpilato at gmail.com
Date: Thu Aug 18 10:45:28 2011
Log: Finish issue #70 ("Basic syntax of WC paths should not be buried
in a
chapter named Advanced Topics").
* en/book/ch01-fundamental-concepts.xml
Mention at one of the earliest relevant spots in the text the
at-syntax problem for paths and URLs, with a pointer to the Peg
Revision section.
Reported by: Sam Ruby <sa3ruby>
http://code.google.com/p/svnbook/source/detail?r=4011
Modified:
/trunk/en/book/ch01-fundamental-concepts.xml
=======================================
--- /trunk/en/book/ch01-fundamental-concepts.xml Mon Aug 15 12:22:38 2011
+++ /trunk/en/book/ch01-fundamental-concepts.xml Thu Aug 18 10:45:28 2011
@@ -623,6 +623,14 @@
quotation marks at the command line so that your shell treats
the whole thing as a single argument to the program.</para>
+ <para>There is one notable exception to Subversion's handling of
+ URLs which also applies to its handling of local paths in many
+ contexts, too. If the final path component of your URL or
+ local path contains an at sign (<literal>@</literal>), you need
+ to use a special syntax—described in
+ <xref linkend="svn.advanced.pegrevs" />—in order to make
+ Subversion properly address that resource.</para>
+
<para>In Subversion 1.6, a new caret (<literal>^</literal>)
notation was introduced as a shorthand for <quote>the URL of
the repository's root directory</quote>. For example, you can
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