'svn auth' URL-escapes and path-canonicalizes the pattern, which breaks some use-cases. For example,
[[[ % $svn auth "<https://svn.apache.org:443> ASF Committers" DBG: Pattern 0 is '%3chttps://svn.apache.org:443%3e%20asf%20committers' # [1] % $svn auth "://svn.apache.org" DBG: Pattern 0 is ':/svn.apache.org' ]]] (The debug print is of b.patterns in svn_cl__auth().) That's due to using svn_cl__args_to_target_array_print_reserved() to collect patterns from argv. I see no reason to do canonicalization or escaping here, or to forbid ".svn" and "_svn"; the arguments are not paths, they are patterns. Removing slashes and adding %-escaping causes false negative matches. (Removing the canonicalization will permit patterns such as '*///*', which will never match, but that is not a problem: having zero matches is not an error.) Seems to me we should just take the patterns from argv as-are, with no changes save for transcoding (C encoding -> UTF-8). Daniel [1] As an aside, why did it downcase "ASF Committers"? Did svn think those words were part of the hostname? I'm on Linux, on a case-sensitive filesystem.
