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

From: Don Hinton <dhinton_at_objectsciences.com>
Date: 2002-07-30 16:48:11 CEST

Hi all:

Le Mardi 30 Juillet 2002 14:31, Helge Hess a écrit :
> Féliciano Matias wrote:
> >>>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.
>
> But Mozilla is an file:// protocol "client" ! A lot of programs and
> libraries allow access to local resources by using "file://" URLs in a
> consistent way (that is, I can grab a file:// URL I opened in a browser
> and paste this into wget or OpenOffice or my own programs and it still
> works ...)
> IMHO a file-URL should work the same way in any program on a single
> machine.
>
> > Understand me. svn do a great jobs vith its "special" file:// . I only
> > don't like its use of file:// .
>
> +1, I agree with that.

I'm new to subversion and found the file:// syntax a little confusing at
first. so +1 for me too...

btw, my testing thus far has been very positive... thanks!!!

take care..
don

>
> "file://" is the "file system API protocol", not "subversion repository
> stored in files API protocol". "file://" can be used to locate the
> subversion repository itself (using usual file:// semantics), but it
> IMHO makes little sense to use different semantics for path components
> following the repository folder.
>
> I'm not sure whether it's really important to fix that now, but it's
> probably much more difficult if sv is widely used ...
>
> Greetings
> Helge
>
>
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