[svnbook] r5138 committed - trunk/en/book/ch01-fundamental-concepts.xml

lyalyakin at users.sourceforge.net lyalyakin at users.sourceforge.net
Thu May 26 14:03:30 CDT 2016


Revision: 5138
          http://sourceforge.net/p/svnbook/source/5138
Author:   lyalyakin
Date:     2016-05-26 19:03:30 +0000 (Thu, 26 May 2016)
Log Message:
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Read-thru of SVNBook 1.8.

* en/book/ch01-fundamental-concepts.xml.
  (svn.advanced.reposurls): Windows users are ofter confused by the
  caret notation because ^ character is an escape character on
  Windows. Let's mention that they have to enter a double caret ^^
  instead.

Modified Paths:
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    trunk/en/book/ch01-fundamental-concepts.xml

Modified: trunk/en/book/ch01-fundamental-concepts.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/en/book/ch01-fundamental-concepts.xml	2016-05-26 18:29:51 UTC (rev 5137)
+++ trunk/en/book/ch01-fundamental-concepts.xml	2016-05-26 19:03:30 UTC (rev 5138)
@@ -665,8 +665,13 @@
         precisely to the root directory of the repository, you must do
         so using <literal>^/</literal> (with the trailing slash
         character), not merely
-        <literal>^</literal>.</para>
+        <literal>^</literal>.  Windows users should not forget that
+        a caret is an escape character on their platform.  Therefore,
+        use a double caret <literal>^^</literal> if you run the
+        Subversion client on a Windows machine.
+      </para>
 
+        
     </sect2>
 
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