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[j w]

On Dec 18, 2007 9:34 AM, j w <jwdevel at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 17, 2007 12:27 PM, Evan Powers <evan.powers+hg at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Anyway, Subversion lets you specify two revision numbers:
> >     svn cat -r X path/to/file at Y
> >
>
> Do you know how svn deals with files that have @ in their name? I have
> run into such files myself. Perforce annoyed me when I found you
> couldn't have '#' or '@' in its files for exactly that reason.
>
> -John
>

Actually I should say in p4 you _can_ have those characters, you just
have to url-encode them on the commandline (pain!)
http://www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.current/manuals/cmdref/o.fspecs.html

-John