Den fre 27 juni 2025 kl 15:08 skrev Branko Čibej <br...@apache.org>:
> On 27. 6. 25 11:54, Daniel Sahlberg wrote: > > Den tis 17 juni 2025 kl 15:58 skrev Branko Čibej <br...@apache.org>: > >> TL;DR: Leave well enough alone. One can already do any amount of mischief >> with a Unix shell, or by creating files programmatically. There's really no >> need to add one more avenue for confusion by "fixing" --targets. >> > > Makes sense to me. Should we document this some way in svn help? Currently: > [[[ > $ svn help add > [...] > Valid options: > --targets ARG : pass contents of file ARG as additional args > [...] > ]]] > > We could update the svnbook as well, it currently says: > [[[ > --targets *FILENAME* > > Tells Subversion to read additional target paths for the operation from > *FILENAME*. *FILENAME* should contain one path per line, with each path > expected to use the same encoding and formatting that it would if you had > specified it directly as an argument on the command line. > ]]] > > > > I'm sorry, what's there to fix? > To document that there are some filenames which, while valid in the file system, are not possible to use in the file pointed to by --targets. Basically, have something to point at and say "works as expected" when the question from the original poster comes up again. Cheers, Daniel
