RE: RFC: a permanent svn-specific URL syntax

"?rev=revision" or "?r=revision" would certainly be the most natural, IMHO.

--Tim

-----Original Message-----
From: Colin Watson [mailto:cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
Sent: woensdag 28 mei 2003 17:00
To: dev@subversion.tigris.org
Subject: Re: RFC: a permanent svn-specific URL syntax

On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 12:47:05PM +0100, Mukund wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 02:36:31PM -0500, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> | A) we all want a new, permanent, public, non-changing URL syntax
> |
> | B) we're willing to support the permanent syntax.
>
> Please let us keep the URL syntax to something which does not change how
> we know human visible URLs currently.
>
> i.e., if the visible URL currently is:
> http://svn.something.net/repository/project/branch1/file.c
>
> Then please let us keep the (rev, path) pair syntax of the URL similar
> to the above by appending the revision number in some conspicuous way.
>
> http://svn.something.net/repository/project/branch1/file.c@1613
> http://svn.something.net/repository/project/branch1/file.c/1613
> http://svn.something.net/repository/project/branch1/file.c,1613

Something like this also allows access control to be used easily on both
HEAD URLs and revision URLs. Using path-info as in "/revision" looks
ideal for files because it ensures that it can't possibly clash with a
real entry in the repository, but is not so good for directories.
Perhaps "?rev=revision" would be simplest.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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