Question

I am using the default SVN client on Mac that you use with the terminal. The problem is I want to commit three files that contains an “@” in them, and only those files. However it does not seem to work, SVN cannot read the @ for some reason. I did it like this:

svn commit Assets/[e-mail] -m "test"

What is the correct syntax?

Answer 1

That’s the syntax for peg revisions. This is the workaround suggested in the manual:

The perceptive reader is probably wondering at this point whether the
peg revision syntax causes problems for working copy paths or URLs
that actually have at signs in them. After all, how does svn know
whether news@11 is the name of a directory in my tree or just a syntax
for “revision 11 of news”? Thankfully, while svn will always assume
the latter, there is a trivial workaround. You need only append an at
sign to the end of the path, such as news@11@. svn cares only about
the last at sign in the argument, and it is not considered illegal to
omit a literal peg revision specifier after that at sign. This
workaround even applies to paths that end in an at sign—you would use
filename@@ to talk about a file named filename@.

Ugly, isn’t it? 🙂