Invalid link resolution to a file line

[Emmanuel Blot]

It seems that wiki syntax such as in:

[source:trunk/COPYING#L3 Line3]

is not interpreted as expected: anchor to line 3 of …/trunk/COPYING

the # symbol forces the link resolution to 'revision L3', which is not valid:

• #\d+ should be resolved as a specific revision of a file, whereas
• #\w.* should be resolved as an anchor name

[sergey]

It's not too late to abandon using # for revision numbers and use Subversion's designated @ character (see ​svn diff for example). Such change will disambiguate the notation and fix the problem described here.

[Matthew Good]

The use of "#rev" is kept for backwards compatibility, but if you want to link to a line anchor you will need to specify a revision number with the "@rev" syntax adopted for #2011.

For example:

[source:trunk/COPYING@2436#L3 Line 3]

Renders as: Line 3​

The rationale is that line numbers can change, so the revision number is needed for the line numbers to be valid.