Re: Accessing different revs via Apache?

In a message dated: 08 Oct 2002 15:19:12 CDT
Ben Collins-Sussman said:

>pll@lanminds.com writes:
>>
>> How do I access a different revision of something via the web server?
>
>Use ViewCVS. :-)
>
>Seriously, cmpilato is almost done making this software work on
>Subversion. Check out the latest source of ViewCVS to see.

Can I use svn to check this code out ;)
(just kidding)

>Right. The only reason this works is because we're allowing a GET on
>a directory... it's kind of a mod_dav_svn freebie.
>
>The truth is, WebDAV doesn't have a standardized syntax for accessing
>'baseline collections', which are equivalent to svn revisions.
>Instead, the WebDAV client has a standard set of methods for
>*discovering* an opaque URL that represents a particular baseline
>collection. Every DAV/deltaV server has the right to define its own
>syntax.

After all the white-paper reading I've done on WebDAV and now trying
to understand svn, I'm beginning to think that the 'V' in WebDAV
stands for 'Version' not 'Versioning' :)

>So at the moment, mod_dav_svn has its own syntax. But it might change
>at anytime, and we don't want people habituating to it. If I told you
>what it was, I'd have to kill you. :-)

Okay, then don't tell me :)

I'll play with ViewCVS and see if I can get that working.

Thanks,

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Seeya,
Paul
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