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

From: Robert Mouat <robert_at_mouat.net>
Date: 2002-07-30 20:45:26 CEST

cmpilato@red-bean.com wrote:
> "B. W. Fitzpatrick" <fitz@red-bean.com> writes:
>
> > =?ISO-8859-1?Q?F=E9liciano?= Matias <feliciano.matias@free.fr> writes:
> > > 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.
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > OK. Now I get your point. Do you really think this is a big problem?
>
> Has it pinched me in the past when I wasn't at a pinnacle of personal
> alertness? Sure. Big problem, no.
>
> > It seems to me to be a matter of preference. Is anyone else confused
> > by this?
>
> I imagine that it can be confusing. I also envision a day when there
> exists a kernel module that allows one to `mount', if but read-only, a
> Subversion repository. In that case, file:// would do the right
> thing in lynx or Mozilla.

<delurk>

but you still wouldn't use the same url for svn and your browser...

e.g.
# mount -t svn -o ro,rev=HEAD /path/to/repository /mnt

$ svn co svnlocal://path/to/repository
$ lynx file://mnt

Robert.

</delurk>

>
> I hate to say it, but I'm +1 on changing file:// to our own registered
> (or practically-registered-by-way-of-unique-use) protocol scheme.
>
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