[svnbook] r4012 committed - Merge from ^/trunk/en r4011, whose log message read like so:...

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Revision: 4012
Author:   cmpilato at gmail.com
Date:     Thu Aug 18 10:51:43 2011
Log:      Merge from ^/trunk/en r4011, whose log message read like so:

    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=4012

Modified:
  /branches/1.6/en
  /branches/1.6/en/book/ch01-fundamental-concepts.xml

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--- /branches/1.6/en/book/ch01-fundamental-concepts.xml	Tue Jul  5 09:25:22  
2011
+++ /branches/1.6/en/book/ch01-fundamental-concepts.xml	Thu Aug 18 10:51:43  
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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