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Re: Relative Externals - format debate

From: Peter N. Lundblad <peter_at_famlundblad.se>
Date: 2005-01-05 21:43:56 CET

On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Michael Brouwer wrote:

> I'd like to add my 2c to this thread. If these different types of
> relative paths are allowed for externals why not allow them as
> arguments to regular commands as well.
>
> so something like:
> svn diff ../tags/1.0
> would actually work. (you might need some prefix to disambiguate this
> from local relative paths).
>
I have been thinking of an --url option that will treat all targets as
URLs. Relative URLs would be relative to '.''s URL. I like this better
than playing with the URL syntax.

> Perhaps svk's // to indicate the current repository would work.
>
The problem is that this already has a meaning as a relative URL. See
RFC2396.

Regards,
//Peter

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