> "B. W. Fitzpatrick" <fitz@red-bean.com> writes:
> > So my question for all of you is this:
> >
> > Why does the URL have to tell us where the repository begins? I
> > picture a scenario where we can have it both ways--the URL can be
> > stored like this:
> >
> > http://www.lyra.org/who/knows/where/the/repos/begins/naaaah/foo.txt
> >
> > and our client can provide functionality like this:
> >
> > $ svn --where-does-the-repository-in-my-cwd-begin
> > Your repository begins at repos/begins/naaaah
> > Have a nice day.
> > $
>
> Because the working copy would need a network connection to know this.
Why couldn't the necessary info be stored on the client, just not in
the URL? Isn't there some property or something we could stuff it in?
-Fitz
Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:22 2006