> On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 12:02:52AM -0000, fitz@tigris.org wrote:
> >...
> > +* repository commands
> > +
> > + the ability to do repository operations from the client via the 'svn
> > + repo' subcommand.
>
> Euh... are you looking at this as being similar to "cvs server" (or whatever
> the command is) ? i.e. it opens a socket to the server and you type protocol
> commands?
>
> If so, then it has no corresponding analogue in the SVN model. Our wire
> protocol is much more sophisticated than CVS's (although simpler on other
> levels). I just can't see somebody wanting to manually compose HTTP/1.1
> requests to the server.
>
> [ I'm not sure if pserver does it, but Apache will also timeout connections
> if you don't deliver some activity; if somebody pauses while typing
> commands... well, poof! ]
>
> Now... I do seem to recall that some people used this from *scripts* rather
> than manually typing stuff. Bleck. I'd say let people use the "svn" command
> itself, or use libsvn_client (wrapped in your favorite scripting language)
> to do the work.
Maybe Jim can comment on this one... I culled it from his ideas file
that Karl sent to the dev list when I was getting started on the
README.
-Fitz
Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:14 2006