Re: [RFC/PATCH] Revamping ra_svn tunnel agents

On Sat, 2003-04-26 at 20:42, Garrett Rooney wrote:
> this seems like useful functionality, but personally i find the
> svn+ssh:// syntax ugly. how about svn:ssh:// ? or would the rules for
> url's make that : illegal?

Sort of. svn:ssh://... would conform to the most generic URL syntax
(which is just scheme:scheme-specific-part) but not to the common syntax
for server-based URLs.

On the other hand, RFC 2396 section 3.2.2 does say that that common
syntax is for "URL schemes that involve the direct use of an IP-based
protocol to a specified server on the Internet", which isn't what's
going on here. So from a technical perspective, I'm not really sure
which is better: my patch, with the libsvn_ra hack to allow "+foo"
suffixes in URL schemes, or your suggestion, which plays with the URL
syntax.

>From an aesthetic perspective, I think "svn+ssh" is actually fairly
intuitive, since it reads as "svn plus ssh", which is pretty much what's
going on.

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Received on Sun Apr 27 03:02:10 2003