Re: A concern about mergeinfo and compatability.

"C. Michael Pilato" <cmpilato_at_collab.net> writes:
> Also, we did *not* involve the repository version number in our
> capabilities checks. See
> libsvn_ra_local/ra_plugin.c:svn_ra_local__has_capability() and
> mod_dav_svn/version.c:get_vsn_options(), for example.

Queries should be about capabilities, not about version numbers.
Don't ask "What repository version are you?", instead ask "Do you
support the XYZ capability I'd like to use?"

(I.e., the same philosophy autoconf uses.)

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