Re: Public read-only URLs

David Summers wrote:
>
> On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Blair Zajac wrote:
>
> > Subject: Public read-only URLs
> >
> > I'm putting up my Orca package at freshmeat.org and they have a
> > field named "Changelog".
> >
> > It sure would be handy if Subversion had some public read-only
> > URLs, such as for the log messages. Something like
> >
> > http://svn.orcaware.com:800/repos/svn_query?field=svn:log&rev=HEAD
> >
> > would be cool. You wouldn't need a svn client to get the info.
>
> You mean like http://summersoft.fay.ar.us/cgi-bin/svn-log.cgi?apache
> ???

Hmm, that wouldn't already be in the svn tree, now would it :) Why
yes, in tools/cgi.

>
> That's just a small couple line shell script on the web server.
> (But I guess you mean without using the "svn log" command "client" on the
> server? Why?

Yes. Why not? The server is already web ready. Why not add more
stuff to it instead of strapping on these extra CGIs. Now I know
the case can be made where does it stop, but this looks like a pretty
easy one.

Best,
Blair

-- 
Blair Zajac <blair@orcaware.com>
Web and OS performance plots - http://www.orcaware.com/orca/
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