hmm ... i tried it now. did you merge that and i'm just not able to
use it?
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Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 16:48:01 -0500
From: mark benedetto king <mbk@boredom.org>
Subject: Re: change repository url
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On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 03:27:15PM -0600, Florin Iucha wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 12:48:40PM -0500, mark benedetto king
wrote:
> >
> > It it my intention to merge in the issue-951 changes this
weekend.
>
> Will this handle svn:externals as well?
>
> florin
>
Not this weekend. :-)
What this thread (and another concurrent thread) are touching on is
the disconnect between the URLs that we are using to refer to these
repositories and their logical names.
Perhaps we should support a new schema: repo:name:/path
The name would be resolved to a URL via ~/.subversion configuration.
Benefits include, but are not limited to:
1.) O(1) svn switch --relocate. Actually, we'll probably want to
keep
the crawling version around; people who just want to move the
pointer
can simply edit the config file.
2.) implicit support for svn:externals, even in a heterogenous work
environment, where one developer needs http: and another needs
svn:
3.) less typing, better usability ("what was the URL for the tomcat
repo?")
Drawbacks: WCs are not self-contained; tar up a WC and ship it to
your
grandmother, and it might not work for her. We could engineer some
of the
pain out of this by prompting for URLs if we enounter unknown repo
names...
Note: WCs are not *reallY* self-contained, anyway, since URLs are
interpreted
by local resolvers, local DNS servers, local proxies, local routers,
etc...
Also, anyone who *wanted* to make a "universal" WC could --relocate
it to
a "real URL".
I'm sure there are other drawbacks that don't come immediately to
mind;
I have been drinking, after all. (And it's not even 5PM yet!)
--ben
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