On 03.12.2018 09:39, Stefan Sperling wrote: > 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.
"Some sort of excaping" also silently changes existing rules and, worse, does it in far more subtle ways than my proposed change. SVN-4784 is a different issue and should be solved in the auto-props code; I added a proposal in Jira but haven't had time to bring it to this list. -- Brane
