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

Jostein Christoffer Andersen <jostein@josander.net> writes:
> On Monday 04 August 2003 18.01, kfogel@collab.net wrote:
> > Neither the web page nor change give Mickael Marchand's email address;
> > do you know it?
>
> Email (from kdevelop's ChangeLog): marchand@kde.org

Thanks, Jostein -- and hello, Mickael. We saw your announcement of
SVN support here:

   http://members.shaw.ca/dkite/july252003.html

Thanks for adding it! We're concerned about the URL syntax, though.
You wrote that

   svn://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/README?rev=500 to get revision
     500 of the file README :)

This is a problem because "svn://" already has a specific meaning in
Subversion -- it means the ra_svn access layer, as opposed to the
ra_dav access layer, which uses "http://". I'll just quote from Greg
Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>'s reaction:

> 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).

We think it's important to avoid each application developing different
syntaxes for accessing versioned resources in Subversion -- otherwise,
what is the "U" in "URI"? :-)

The command line 'svn' client has been (somewhat tentatively) using
URL@REV to indicate specific revisions, but we're certainly open to
other solutions. (I'm not sure I understand the problem behind Greg's
last objection, but I'm sure he can explain it in more detail).

Anyway, if current syntaxes aren't expressive enough, let's discuss it
and find a solution. But we must avoid incompatible overloads, or
users will get very confused.

Best,
-Karl Fogel

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Received on Mon Aug 4 22:28:46 2003