Re: [PATCH] implement "svn relocate", a subcommand for frobbing the wc's urls.

On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 02:30:40PM -0400, Greg Hudson wrote:
> > Use cases are good ones. Think about a developer with a laptop (like
> > myself) who has to hit a repository via two different URLs depending
> > on where his net connection is
>
> This case seems better handled at the DNS layer, honestly.
>

It would be, if the only thing to change were DNS. Unfortunately
for me, the port number also changes when I move from home to work.

Unless by DNS you meant "DNS SVC records". :-)

It's even conceivable that the non-host-components of the URL
could differ; perhaps through an eternal interface one would use

    http://firewall.foo.com/codebase/repos

Where the firewall internally forwards /codebase/(.*) to
http://codebase.foo.com/$1

--ben

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Received on Fri Sep 20 21:47:11 2002