On Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 09:30:53AM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 08:15:24AM +0000, Julian Foad wrote: > > Branko Čibej wrote: > > > The proposed change in the parser is only enabled for parsing authz and > > > global group files, other Subversion configuration files will use the > > > current semantics. > > > > These sorts of quirks tend to make a system hard to maintain in the long > > run. What if we find another case where we'd like to depart from that > > parsing? How far would we go? > > > > What alternative solution could we consider? > > Some sort of escaping mechanism might work.
See also https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SVN-4784 It would be nice if a solution to the authz issues would address that issue as well.
