Question regarding "@" symbol

[Leonard Wayne <lr...@earthlink.net>]

Hello.

I read the Subversion documentation (in 
particular the "Peg and Operative Revisions"
section) for how to handle versioning of
directories with names that contain the "@"
symbol.  But I am still confused by something.

I want to use the "import" command to import a 
tree that includes subdirectories with names
that contain the "@" symbol.  For example I
would like to do the following (using the
Windows syntax):

svn import c:\myPath\myDirTree file:///c:/svn/repo/myProject -m "Initial import."

The directory tree "myDirTree" contains 
subdirectories with names that contain the "@"
symbol.

The command executes without reporting any
problems.

But is it OK to use this command?  Or instead
of using the "import" command should I instead
do a bunch of "add" commands and use the 
workaround discussed in the "Peg and Operative
Revisions" section of the manual (append "@"
at the end of the path)?

The reason I cannot avoid using directories
whose names contain "@" is that Matlab has
users place class-based code in directories
whose name begins with "@".

Thank you in advance.

- Len

Re: Question regarding "@" symbol

[Blair Zajac <bl...@orcaware.com>]

On 01/08/2013 12:11 PM, Leonard Wayne wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I read the Subversion documentation (in
> particular the "Peg and Operative Revisions"
> section) for how to handle versioning of
> directories with names that contain the "@"
> symbol.  But I am still confused by something.
>
> I want to use the "import" command to import a
> tree that includes subdirectories with names
> that contain the "@" symbol.  For example I
> would like to do the following (using the
> Windows syntax):
>
> svn import c:\myPath\myDirTree file:///c:/svn/repo/myProject -m "Initial import."

This will work.  The only issue with @ is when it appears in a command 
line.  Anytime you reference one of the directories with a @ in its 
name, then you'll need to append a @ at the end.

> The directory tree "myDirTree" contains
> subdirectories with names that contain the "@"
> symbol.
>
> The command executes without reporting any
> problems.
>
> But is it OK to use this command?  Or instead
> of using the "import" command should I instead
> do a bunch of "add" commands and use the
> workaround discussed in the "Peg and Operative
> Revisions" section of the manual (append "@"
> at the end of the path)?

No, just use import.

BTW, I don't like import for a different reason is that there's no 
forgiveness for errors, say if you've left a file in the directory you 
don't want to import.  I like to do a recursive add instead for that reason.

Regards,
Blair