Re: finding the root of a repository url

Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net> writes:

> "SteveKing" <steveking@gmx.ch> writes:
>
> > For my subversion client (TortoiseSVN) I need to find the root of a
> > subversion repository url from a log.
>
> We long ago decided that we wouldn't be able to keep the repo-root and
> repo-path permanently joined in an opaque URL. Someday, we decided,
> we would have to store the repo-root in the entries file as another
> "live" prop ("entry prop"), just like the repos-UUID.

Actually, almost every use-case we knew of for storing the canonical
repos URL was made irrelevant by the introduction of a stored repos
UUID. So, I believe we had actually abandoned the repos URL idea
altogether. This might be a reason to re-evaluate that decision.

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Received on Tue Jul 1 08:11:47 2003