Re: (FS) operational question

Greg Stein wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 09:26:38PM +0100, Branko Cibej wrote:
>
>> Karl, Greg is talking about node revisions now, you're still thinking
>> about filesytem revisions. They're not the same. The working copy
>> library can update the URL's iff they contain a filesystem revision
>> number, but not if they contain a node revision.
>
>
> The WC can never modify a version resource URL, no matter what is in it.

Oh, right; I should have said "could".

> But yes: I'm talking about using the ID within the URL. It gives us a better
> mapping of URL <-> object than if we used the revision in there. The only
> impact that I can see is that the FS would need an API to open a node by ID
> (also implying that we avoid opening a specific revision of the root). This
> open-by-ID is used for fetching content (new/old). At commit time, we don't
> need any additional APIs.

That should be possible, I think. Jim will know for sure.

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