"C. Michael Pilato" <cmpilato@collab.net> writes:
> > My understanding is not that the 'svn:externals' property is going to
> > die, but rather that the actions it triggers will change. Instead of
> > causing sub-checkouts to happen, where the target is not listed in its
> > parent dir, they will check out objects from arbitrary repositories
> > and those objects will be listed in the parent's entries file.
> >
> > Even in the latter scenario, http-referer still makes sense.
>
> Fine.
>
> Regardless, the RA layers know nothing of the reasons why a checkout
> is happening -- and they don't need to know -- so there's no way that
> ra_dav could transmit this header conditionally.
Or we'd have to make a new 'referring_url' parameter in parts of the
RA interface... yah... Uck, you're right, the extra API complexity
quite outweighs the benefits.
Back to your regularly scheduled programming,
-Karl
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Received on Fri Oct 10 17:12:48 2003