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Re: KDE's Subversion support are getting better :-)

From: <kfogel_at_collab.net>
Date: 2003-08-04 18:01:11 CEST

Jostein Christoffer Andersen <jostein@josander.net> writes:
> On Sunday 03 August 2003 04.41, Greg Hudson wrote:
> > > svn://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/README?rev=500 to get revision
> > > 500 of the file README :)
> >
> > Oof. That seems bad on several fronts; it maps svn:// URLs to HTTP
> > rather than ra_svn, it invents a URL syntax we don't support, and the
> > URL syntax it invents is bogus (/repos/svn/trunk/README may be a
> > completely different resource at two different revs).
>
> I don't think that's a problem. I think this is just an example of a
> thing that can be done.

No, Greg's right, this is bad.

"svn://" already means something in the Subversion universe. It will
be very confusing if KDE makes it mean something else. If KDE wants
to offer a feature that current SVN syntaxes can't support, then we
should solve the problem in a compatible way, not by overloading
existing meanings incompatibly.

It's really losing if Subversion resources use a different URI syntax
for each application that accesses them. The whole *point* of URI is
the "U", right? :-)

Neither the web page nor change give Mickael Marchand's email address;
do you know it?

-Karl

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