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Re: file:// -> svn://

From: Féliciano Matias <feliciano.matias_at_free.fr>
Date: 2002-07-30 16:15:00 CEST

Le mar 30/07/2002 à 15:19, B. W. Fitzpatrick a écrit :
>
> > svn understand : file:///var/svn/repos/proj_A/dir/
> > mozilla not.
>
> Of course not. Mozilla can't talk to an svn repository directly

and of course since file://... doesn't mean : if you find something like
a Subversion repository, do animaginary mount, and go through this "new
file system".

Perhaps i need to read the RFC about file:// and check if there is
something about Subversion repository.

> --only over http.
>
> > Mozilla understand : file:///tmp
> > svn not.
>
> Is there an svn repository in /tmp? If not, then why *would* svn
> understand it?
>

So svn use file:// for Subversion repository only. Mozilla and other
browser use file:// for all files. If the file can not be printed it
prompt you to save the file.
This is not a big problem if a subversion repository hold in one big
file (somethink like "repos.svn").
In this case, a browse get a mime-type like "svn-repository" and load
the apropriate plugin (if any) which in turn display the repository.

And what about this little problem :

  $ svnadmin create /var/svn/repos

Now what does mean "file:///var/svn/repos/README" or
"file:///var/svn/repos/hooks/hooks/post-commit" ?

It depend on the client.

Subversion introduce a file:// use which is incompatible with the
standard file:// . It's not an extension of file://. It's "only"
incompatible.

> > Mozilla or svn buggy ?
>
> Neither. Mozilla is not an svn client--Mozilla talks to the repository
> via http. On the same note, subversion is not a web browser.
>

Understand me. svn do a great jobs vith its "special" file:// . I only
don't like its use of file:// .

> -Fitz
>
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