On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 6:59 AM, Jason Heeris <jason.hee...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12 July 2012 08:03, Jason Heeris <jason.hee...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I'll file it later today and see what response I get. > > > Apparently I need a buddy with whom to file the bug. If anyone would be > willing, I'd appreciate it. > > I've attached a bash script that reproduces the problem under SVN 1.7.4. > Please read the script before running it, I make no assurances that it's not > accidentally going to do something awful...
Thanks for the thoroughness, writing a reproduction script etc. Please go ahead and file an issue in the issue tracker. I've taken a quick look in the source code: the problem is the config parsing code, which parses the "repos:path" thing as a section name (everything between the square brackets in de config file). See the function parse_section_name in libsvn_subr/config_file.c [1]. I think the only character that causes problems is ']' (which ends the section name parsing). It seems not too hard to change that parsing function to make it handle some kind of escape sequence for ']' (perhaps ']]'). Would you care to write a patch [2]? [1] http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/subversion/trunk/subversion/libsvn_subr/config_file.c?view=markup from line 315 onward (the comment says "Read chars until enounter ']' ..."). [2] http://subversion.apache.org/docs/community-guide/general.html#patches -- Johan