On 19.03.2014 14:59, Bert Huijben wrote: > > The problem is that you can’t quote… > > > > So while from python you can pass ‘*’ as an argument on unix, you > can’t do this on Windows… >
And when, pray tell, do you ever have to pass a literal asterisk as an argument to Subversion? Give me one example. > For a tool like ‘svnmucc’ which doesn’t have any ‘*’ handling of its > own this makes the tool work less like on *nix, not work more like on > Unix. > I'm confused ... which "'*' handling" are you referring to? > I’m quite surprised that the responses in this thread are all from the > common unix developers on this list; not the Windows developers > Go check the repo history to see who started the Windows port before you decide who is and who is not a Windows developer. > while Cygwin (which is how many unix devs work on Windows) explicitly > doesn’t apply this behavior to the ‘svn’ they provide. > Of course it doesn't, cygwin is supposed to be a Unix-like environment for Windows, and they expect people to use bash -- which does the argument expansion -- not cmd.exe. You're argument is doubly strange since we've always told people not to mix and match cygwin and Windows, and have always recommended they use the native command-line binaries with cmd.exe. The behaviour you quote is one reason for that; native end-of-line format is another. -- Brane -- Branko Čibej | Director of Subversion WANdisco // Non-Stop Data e. br...@wandisco.com
