From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 14:16:52 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] SVN 1.7 will truncate "not-a%40{0}" to just "not-a".
Message-ID: <20120728141652.GA1603@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <1343468872-72133-2-git-send-email-schwern@pobox.com>

Michael G. Schwern wrote:

> Rather than guess what SVN is going to do for each version, make the test use
> the branch name that was actually created.
[...]
> -		git rev-parse "refs/remotes/not-a%40{0}reflog"
> +		git rev-parse "refs/remotes/$non_reflog"

Doesn't this defeat the point of the testcase (checking that git-svn
is able to avoid creating git refs containing @{, following the rules
from git-check-ref-format(1))?

Do you know when SVN truncates the directory name?  Would historical
SVN repositories or historical SVN servers be able to have a directory
named with a %40 in it, or has this been disallowed completely,
leaving problematic historical repositories to be dumped with old SVN,
tweaked, and reloaded with new SVN?

Thanks,
Jonathan