"modules" (was: Re: cmd line stuff)

On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 01:54:13PM -0500, Jim Blandy wrote:
>
> > However, one thing that occurs to me is how would one specify a module
> > with that command syntax?
> >
> > Please correct me if svn is not going to support modules like cvs; or
> > if a module in svn would just be something like a symlink?
>
> Modules in Subversion are simply subdirectories of the filesystem. To
> get some of the more sophisticated behavior of CVS's modules file,
> we're going to provide new kinds of directories, whose contents are
> computed from other directories.

Um. I'm not sure that I follow this, or if it is hand-waving at this point.

At the moment, an SVN repository is a URL. You give the client a URL and it
does the rest. The server figures out what it wants to do with that URL.

I don't understand what else is being suggested here, and/or how you can
compose/mix these URLs.

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/