post 0.8 development

[John A Meinel]

Jan Hudec wrote:
> On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 08:27:33 -0700, John A Meinel wrote:
>> Robert Widhopf-Fenk wrote:
>>> It does not matter if it is common in file names, it only
>>> must not exist in a branch name and IMHO this restrictions
>>> would not harm anyone?
>>>
>>> With the same syntax as for -r, e.g.
>>>
>>>  bzr diff http://path/to/branch,1..2
>>>  bzr diff .,1 http://path/to/branch,2
>>>  bzr diff http://path/to/branch,2
>>>  ...
>>>  
>>> Are there any branches around with a "," in the branch
>>> (directory) name?  I did not find any public ones.
>>>
>>> SVN uses "@", so using it would not cause headache to
>>> assimilated svn users.
>>>
>>> Robert
>> At one point we started using /@, meaning path/to/branch/@1
>> I don't remember the official reasons, but we decided to get rid of that
>> syntax.
>> I'm fine with the comma. I think we should support escaping it, (as in
>> http://path/with\,comma/,1..2) But I'm not settled on that.
> 
> It's an *URL* -- so http://path/with%2ccomma/,1..2
> 
>> I dislike arbitrary "you can't do that" restrictions.
> 
> Nobody is making them -- URLs allow anything (when properly escaped, of
> course).
> 
>> As an old arch hangover, I still create temporary directories with a
>> leading comma (helps me realize I can just delete them at anytime in the
>> future).
>> So I do have paths with commas in them. Albeit rarely, and nothing truly
>> important in them.
> 
> But not *versioned* paths with them. You don't need to pass names of
> unversioned (and unintended for versioning) files to bzr.
> 

Except I am frequently testing bzr inside these temporary directories.
And it is a little bit difficult to always write the full file:// url
specifier, just because I have a comma in the path.

But it isn't terrible.

John
=:->


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