Re: Official revision syntax for Subversion URLs

Luke Blanshard wrote:

> Branko Čibej wrote:
>
>> Luke Blanshard wrote:
>>
>>> Seems to me we could have it both ways:
>>>
>>> http://host/some/path/leading/to/file.html;123
>>>
>>> ... for thing-at-the-end, or:
>>>
>>> http://host/some/path;123/leading/to/file.html
>>
>> I don't think we need this. Remember, it only makes sense to have _one_
>> explicit version number per path -- you can't request
>>
>> http://host/part;1/file;2
>>
>> because the revision number always identifies a whole tree.
>
> Yes, but putting it earlier in the URL means that suddenly we can use
> a browser to look at an HTML file with relative links at a particular
> version. That's an important part of the discussion here. So with
> the form:
>
> http://host/some/path;123/leading/to/file.html
>
> ... a relative link in this file to "../../images/brane.gif" becomes
>
> http://host/some/path;123/images/brane.gif
>
> ... so we see the old, embarassing picture, instead of the new
> replacement you've dropped in at HEAD.

Ah, good point, I hadn't thought about relative links.

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Brane Čibej   <brane_at_xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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