How to escape @ characters in Subversion managed file names?

Question

For many Subversion operations, appending the \'@\' symbol to the end of a file or URL argument allows you to target a specific revision of that file. For example, \"svn in

Answer 1

@David H

I just tried a similar command without escaping the @ symbols and it still works fine

svn ci splash.png splash@2x.png@

This is on GNU bash, version 3.2.48(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin10.0) and svn 1.6.16

Answer 2

In my case I needed to remove files from a SVN repo that contained an @ sign:

This wouldn't work:

svn remove 'src/assets/images/hi_res/locales-usa@2x.png'

But this did:

svn remove 'src/assets/images/hi_res/locales-usa@2x.png@'

Answer 3

For svn commands with 2 arguments like "move", you must append "@" only at left (first) parameter. For example:

$ svn add README@txt@
A         README@txt

$ svn move README@txt@ README2@txt
A         README2@txt
D         README@txt


$ svn status
A       README2@txt

$ svn commit -m "blah"
Adding         README2@txt
Transmitting file data .
Committed revision 168.

$ svn delete README2@txt@
D         README2@txt

$ svn commit -m "blahblah"
*Deleting       README2@txt

Committed revision 169.

This line is important: $ svn move README@txt@ README2@txt

As you can see, we don't need to append "@" at "README2@txt"

Answer 4

To add multiple files, there is alternative solution:

svn status | grep \.png | awk '{print $2"@"}'| xargs svn add

Answer 5

The only solution that worked for me was the same suggested by @NPike

svn revert 'path/to/filename@ext@'