Johan Corveleyn wrote on Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 16:45:36 +0200: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> > wrote: > > Johan Corveleyn wrote on Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 12:06:07 +0200: > >> I think ']]' would be the best choice, but still not 100% backwards > >> compatible. But I mean, who in their right mind would write sections > >> like this: > >> > >> [repo:/path/to/file.ext]]haha, this isn't parsed > > > > We document the format as "ini format" and more specifically "same as > > Python's ConfigParser", and the above isn't valid in either of those, so > > we needn't provide back compat for it. > > Where is this documented? >
ch07 #svn.advanced.confarea mentions that ~/.subversion/config is in INI. I suppose the rest is "dev@ folks wisdom", aka: undocumented. > Besides: for Python's ConfigParser (if I understand the code > correctly) I think the above is valid in the way that it doesn't > generate errors: everything after the first ']' is simply ignored. > Also everything before the first [. I suppose there might be logic elsefile that allows only whitespace before/after the \[[^]]*\], but I can't spend much time on that now (have $WORK, etc) > -- > Johan
