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

From: Féliciano Matias <feliciano.matias_at_free.fr>
Date: 2002-08-01 03:29:57 CEST

Le jeu 01/08/2002 à 03:11, Greg Stein a écrit :
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 11:35:24PM +0200, Féliciano Matias wrote:
> >...
> > I put the same proposition twice in this thread (one with title "[RFC]
> > svn:"). The purpose is mainly to find a command line option that support
> > future features of svn and stay quite compatible with the current svn
> > (add some improvement).
> > If you read, sorry, if someone read this proposotion he/she can find a
> > lot of "type saving".
> >
> > an example to create a tag :
> > $ svn copy -m "" svn:/trunk svn:/tags/0.14
>
> That 'svn:' does not precisely locate the repository. It could be different
> from one machine to another. We want to have URLs. Shortcuts like 'svn:'
> probably won't work.
>

We need to read the full story.

here is a copy/paste:

Sorry for my poor english.

I think the problem, is that we want to put too many thinks in an URL.
Suppose that Subversion has evolved :
  - the backend can now be postgresql
  - svn have its own server

And keep in mind that we rarely need to use a "fully qualified"
repository URL (http://host/path_to_repos/path_to_file_dir) because we
have the .svn area that can store some informations.

So, for something that use "fully qualified" repository URL i prefer
something longer but clear (easy to understand) than something sorter
but ugly.

What information we need to feed into svn (and futur svn) ?
1- the location of the svn server, or how to reach the repository
   (http://..../repos and some day svn_server://host/repos).
2- if i don't use a svn server, i need something to say where is the
   repository storage (/var/svn/repos or
   postgresql://user:pass_at_host/repos => repos should be the name of the
   database).
3- the accound of the svn repository to use (if svn have it's own ACL
   system). This stay always true even if we use a postgresql backend.
4- the element in the repository in which the command is apply
   (trunk/README or branches/very_hard_bug/).
5- perhaps some misc parameters like the http proxy to use (at present
   somewhere in ~/.subversion/)

Also, The temptation is great to "merge" 1 et 2 since this doesn't make
difference to a user point of view. But the administrator repository
need to know that is not the same thing ! For example, only repository
storage can be dump.

Currently, we put 1, 2 and 4 in the same url.

The problem is that 1 and 2 can be : file:// http:// postgresql://
svn_server://
Those "protocoles" can not feet the needs of subversion.
http://.../repos/.../dir_or_file with DAV extension seems OK.
file://.../repos/.../dir_or_file is not great.
postgresql://.../repos/.../dir_or_file make no sense.
svn_server://.../repos/.../dir_or_file should be OK.

So we need to "strip" 4 of 1 and 2.
Now 4 can be specific to Subversion (no limit !) and it is independant
to the location of the repository. It's also possible to use relative
path to a repository.

The part 4 can be :
-------------------

svn:/README : refer to the element /README in the repository.
svn:new_dir : refer to the element new_dir in relation to the working
copy or to the previous repository definition.
svn:README#12 : refer to revision 12 of README.

Note : This is not an URL ! => everything is possible !

Some examples :
---------------
Use of "fully qualified" repository.
Checkout a repository :

http:
$ svn co http://host/repos svn:path_dir .

db4 (native svn) :
$ svn co file:///var/svn/repos svn:path_dir .
# this is not permitted :
$ svn co file:///var/svn/repos/path_dir .

svn server:
$ svn co svn_server://host/repos svn:path_dir .

postgresql server:
$ svn co postgresql://host/repos svn:path_dir .

More example with "svn:"
------------------------
Here we play with "svn:" without the use of "fully qualified" repository
URL.

Create directories

$ svn mkdir -m "" http://host/repos svn:new_dir1 svn:new_dir2
svn:new_dir3 file:///.../repos svn:new_dir4

$ svn admin create /tmp/repos # file:///tmp/repos should be correct now
$ svn mkdir file:///tmp/repos svn:trunk svn:tags svn:branches
$ svn co file:///tmp/repos svn:trunk tmp
$ cd tmp

Do a multiple check out

$ svn co http://host/repos svn:dir1 svn:dir2 file://var/repos svn:dir

Copy operations

# create a new tag
$ svn copy -m "" svn:/trunk svn:/tags/0.14
# create a new branche
$ svn copy -m "" svn:/trunk svn:/branches/big_deal

Switch operations

# switch to this new branche
$ svn switch svn:/branches/big_deal
# switch related to the current working copy
$ svn switch svn:doc
# go back
$ svn switch svn:..

Merge operations

$ svn switch svn:/trunk
$ svn merge -r 90:120 svn:/branches/big_dial .

I think this can also make easier the maintenance of a vendor branche.
$ cd vendor/foo
$ svn copy -m "" svn:current svn:foo-1.0
$ svn copy -m "" svn:foo-1.0 svn:/repos/trunk/foo

Note that a lot of common operations does not need http://... or
file://... or postgresql://... .

Add some "magic" tricks to svn
------------------------------

$ svn co http://host/repos svn:/trunk .
# Now, use the "magic" feature of http:// repository that permit to
# "merge" the "svn:" into http://
$ svn co http://host/repos/trunk .
$ svn copy http://host/repos/trunk http://host/repos/tags/0.14

$ svn co file:///.../repos svn:/trunk .
# this is equivalent to
$ svn co svn_local:///.../repos svn:/trunk .
# Now, use the "magic" feature of svn_local:// repository that permit to
# "merge" the "svn:" into svn_local://
$ svn co svn_local:///.../repos/trunk .
# for compatibility purpose, the fallowing command is equivalent
$ svn co file:///.../repos/trunk .

$ svn co postgresql://host/repos/dir .
Error there is no database "repos/dir".
# since this doesn't make sense ...
# do this without "magic" feature

So, there is no big break with the current commande line option.

Note about --username and --password
------------------------------------

Sorry but i don't like this.
this options are use to specify the user in an http request only.

I prefer something like "http://username:password@host/..."

When Subversion have its own ACL system we can write :
$ svn co --username=me --password=mypass http://joe:joepass@host/...
$ svn co --username=me --password=mypass
  postgresql://joe:joepoass_at_host/...

And with a svn_server we can write :
$ svn co svn_server://me:mypass_at_host/...
with svn_local:
$ svn co svn_local://me:mypass@/...

We need to permit multi use of --username and --password.
A complex example of multi check out

$ svn co --username=user1 --password=pass1 http://user:pass@host/repos
svn:dir1 svn:dir2 --username=user2 --password=pass2
postgresql://user:pass_at_host/repos svn:dir3 svn:dir4

Other use of --username
$ svn swith svn:/branche/big_deal
You don't have permission to check out ..../big_deal
$ svn swith --username=admin --password=adminpass svn:/branche/big_deal

this can also be use to change the current account
$ svn swith --username=write_permission --password=pass svn:.

About ssh use:
--------------

Any ideas ?

> Adding, say, the "svnlocal:" scheme would be compatible, and we could easily
> deprecate (but accept) the file: scheme for a while. A few "WARNING"
> messages in front of people when they use file: will be sufficient to train
> them away from it :-)
>
> Cheers,
> -g
>
> --
> Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
>
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