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Re: Official revision syntax for Subversion URLs

From: <kfogel_at_collab.net>
Date: 2003-08-05 18:17:04 CEST

John Peacock <jpeacock@rowman.com> writes:
> Except that with subversion, you have already specified the branch
> itself, before you specify the path/filename you are interested in.
> Personally, I have to agree with the earlier suggestion to tying the
> revision request to the repository:
>
> http://svn.host/path/to/repository@16254/path/to/file
>
> which has the added advantage that the character '@' only has to be
> forbidden from the repository path name itself (instead of random
> files/directories within the repository).

The problem with this is that the user may not actually know where the
repository portion of the URL ends and the path portion begins.
Sometimes it's obvious, sometimes it's not. But there's no algorithm
for finding it, so programs would have a hard time with this method.

Whereas anyone can find the end of a URL :-).

-Karl

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