Okay, I'm sorry I brought it up :-). This topic clearly does not meet
the relevance test I've been encouraging us to use lately, namely, "Is
it related to getting two-way wc/repos communications working?".
I can't promise never to revisit it, Greg S, but I will promise not to
bring it up until after we've gotten commits and updates working with
the filesystem.
Back to the important stuff,
-K
Karl Fogel <kfogel@galois.collab.net> writes:
> Wait, I'm not quite timed out yet after all :-). Greg Hudson has
> presented the best use case yet -- and one which I've actually
> experienced, in CVS, with semi-separable projects that happen to share
> the same repository.
>
> Greg Stein, this seems to me to make a real difference in what the
> user can do. Thoughts?
>
> Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> > I think I do, actually. If I have an interrelated change which
> > affects both neon and mod_dav, then:
> >
> > * If they are in the same repository, I should commit them at
> > the same time, with a log message which documents all of
> > the changes. The change will be treated by Subversion as a
> > single commit.
> >
> > * If they are not in the same repository, I should commit them
> > separately, with a log message for each which documents the
> > changes in each and merely mentions that there is a
> > corresponding change in the other project. The change will
> > be treated by Subversion as two commits (with different
> > commit numbers), one in each repository.
> >
> > > There is no simple syntactic marker that you can place into a URL to
> > > separate the pieces, and still retain the ability to surf through
> > > them (for example, say we put the repos path after a "?" mark; that
> > > would blow away surfing thru the repos).
> >
> > I'm (genuinely) unclear on what the "surfing" operation is and what
> > requirements it imposes on the form of URLs. Unless you just mean
> > what you wrote below:
> >
> > > Consider my www.lyra.org web site. I want to put the whole bugger
> > > under version control. I don't want users to surf my site using URLs
> > > like:
> >
> > > http://www.lyra.org/$sys/greg/index.html
> >
> > > I want them to use http://www.lyra.org/greg/index.html.
> >
> > A valid point, though maybe outside of our core functionality. I'm
> > not sure whether I think it's compelling, or whether it would be
> > better to say that the user-visible web site needs to be a "view" into
> > the repository rather than the repository itself as presented by
> > Subversion.
Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:22 2006