Re: Official revision syntax for Subversion URLs

On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 08:38, kfogel@collab.net wrote:
> Heh, that's a cute solution.
>
> No matter what we choose, we're going to have to come up with a
> quoting or escaping mechanism of some sort. I haven't been able to
> think of a character that combines intuitive-rememberableness with
> unlikely-to-appear-at-end-of-path as well as "@" (Philip, remember
> that the @-sign has to appear at the end of your filename and be
> followed only by numbers, for it to be ambiguous. How many files like
> that do you have?)

  Maybe not. The "/" character is already reserved, perhaps *it*
  could be used. The syntax isn't quite as obvious as using
  an @, but it avoids escapy-ness issues:

    http://my.server.com/repos/some/path/to/file/r1234

  (with or without the "r").

  The logic is a bit unwieldy when you try and work out whether "r1234"
  is talking about a resource or a revision, but I don't think it has
  any ambiguous cases.

daniel

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Received on Tue Aug 5 01:26:32 2003