Re: Book updates

[Sander Roobol <ph...@wanadoo.nl>]

Filed as issue #1306.

Sander

On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 09:10:38PM -0500, Francois Beausoleil wrote:
> Hi !
> 
> I have updated the book.  I made this patch directly from the
> doc/book/book folder.  I only checkout that folder as I do not have the
> required C coding skills, so I checkout what I can work on :)
> 
> Anyway, you'll see I updated the users@subversion.tigris.org email to
> dev@subversion.tigris.org.  I was not so sure about that change.  I put
> it in anyway, at least for the proper markup to be used.
> 
> Finally, I documented the fact that on Windows platforms, you *can* use a
> drive specification in your file URL.  Just use the appropriate syntax. 
> See the patch below.
> 
> Thanks !
> Francois Beausoleil
> 
> Log message:
> * doc/book/book/appa.xml:
>   Minor correction to the text.
> 
> * doc/book/book/appc.xml:
>   Updated markup for support E-Mail address.
>   Rewrote section about Win32 file:// URL access to show how to access
>   repositories on different drives.
> 
> Index: appa.xml
> ===================================================================
> --- appa.xml    (revision 5717)
> +++ appa.xml    (working copy)
> @@ -408,7 +408,7 @@
>        Subversion examines the <literal>svn:mime-type</literal>
>        property.  If the file has no <literal>svn:mime-type</literal>
>        property, or has a mime-type that is textual (e.g. text/*),
> -      Subversion assumes it is text.  Otherwise, Subversion it assumes
> +      Subversion assumes it is text.  Otherwise, Subversion assumes
>        the file is binary.  Subversion also helps users by running a
>        binary-detection algorithm in the <command>svn import</command>
>        and <command>svn add</command> commands.  These commands will
> Index: appc.xml
> ===================================================================
> --- appc.xml    (revision 5717)
> +++ appc.xml    (working copy)
> @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
>          Subversion&mdash;from building, to installing, to using
>          Subversion.  If you can't find the problem you're having here,
>          or you've tried everything we recommend with no success, send
> -        mail to <address>users@subversion.tigris.org</address> with a
> +        mail to <email>dev@subversion.tigris.org</email> with a
>          detailed description of the problem you're having
>          <footnote><para>Remember that the amount of detail you provide
>          about your setup and your problem is directly proportional to
> @@ -183,14 +183,19 @@
>            </screen>
>  
>            <para>Then the problem is that Subversion doesn't handle
> -          file URLs that have a drive specification. Try changing to
> -          that drive then doing an import without the drive spec. For
> -          example:</para>
> +          file URLs that have a drive specification, unless the URL
> +          is properly formatted and special steps are taken to prevent
> +          problems. Quote your file URL and put a vertical bar (the pipe
> +          character) after the drive specification.  An example will
> +          help:</para>
>  
>            <screen>
> -d: 
> -svn import file:///some/path/to/repos/on/d/drive e:\file\to\be\imported
> +e:
> +svn import "file:///D|/some/path/to/repos/on/d/drive
> \file\to\be\imported
>            </screen>
> +
> +          <para>You need to quote the URL so that the vertical bar
> character
> +          is not interpreted as a pipe.</para>
>          </sect3>
>  
>          <sect3 id="svn-ap-c-sect-1.2.5">
> --
>   Francois Beausoleil
>   Developer of Java Gui Builder
>   http://jgb.sourceforge.net/
> 
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