Greg Stein <gstein@lyra.org> writes:
> non-HEAD URLs are Super Secret Mumbo Jumo Not For The Weak :-)
>
> Actually, I think it is fine if a human wants to type them in. However,
> client *software* should never assume or know the format (these are up to
> the server to define).
>
> http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/$svn/bc/900/trunk/HACKING
>
> Substitute the revision and path as appropriate.
>
> (note that the $svn can be changed administratively and the parts past that
> are subject to change)
If humans get in the habit of doing something, pretty soon they're
going to automate it. I think it's totally bogus for us to say "Fine
for a person to type this in, but software should never depend on it."
What kind of distinction is that? :-)
Is there any way we can canonicalize this format, i.e., declare that
it will never change, at least in mod_dav_svn's implementation of
WebDAV?
We're asking for trouble if people start depending on it and then we
break it one day. Saying "Oh, well, you know we never promised..."
won't cut it then. :)
-K
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 09:30:03PM -0600, David Summers wrote:
> >
> > Would you please give an example of a non-HEAD URL? I tried to figure it
> > out the other day (saw some syntax for it in the docs, I thought) but was
> > unsuccessful in getting it figure out. I tried it as soon as you guys
> > enabled that feature a few days ago. Browsing HEAD works fine but I
> > couldn't figure out how to browse a particular (non-tagged) revision.
> >
> > On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Greg Stein wrote:
> >
> > > * builtin web browsing of the repository. for example, take a look at:
> > > http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/HACKING
> > > (that's the HEAD right there; we also have URLs for every previous
> > > revision of every file)
> > >
> >
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