On 03/20/2013 11:11 AM, Julian Foad wrote:
>> '^' symbol already states that this URL is repository relative.
> 
> No.  The "URL:" prefix is already used for the full URL, and we want
> unique prefixes because the 'svn info' output is (I believe) commonly
> parsed by scripts that do things like 'svn info | grep "^URL:"'.

Correct.  I frequently use 'svn info' to get a full URL which I can
copy-n-paste into my web browser or into an email with 'svn checkout'
instructions (where the ^ syntax is useless), for example.

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