Why Subversion skips files which contain the @ symbol?

Question

when I try to execute command like this (from a command-line or Perl script - it doesn\'t matter):

svn revert \"build\\myfile@test.meta\"

SVN s

Answer 1

Just tested it properly on windows using the cmd.exe shell - enclosing the name in double quotes works:

ctmkx> svn revert "trunk\foo@bar.txt"
Reverted 'trunk\foo@bar.txt'