Re: Official revision syntax for Subversion URLs

kfogel@collab.net wrote:

> 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 :-).

With both eyes closed... ;~!

Point taken. But, how often are users going to be expected to go spelunking
through old revisions without the crutch of a tool like viewcvs or TortoiseSVN?
  Aren't tools with "direct" access to the repository able to pull out the root
path? If not, then I can see the dilemma.

If the syntax is awkward for users without knowledge of the underlying repos
structure, how much of a handicap is that if the more common tools can hide
that? Perhaps just having something that makes sense to implement (which the
tools can easily handle) is more important than having it dead simple for
endusers to cobble together manually?

Is there no URI for WebDAV to access non-HEAD revisions? Could the default
WebDAV HTTP interface be enhanced to provide a secondary link to the change
history for a given file in the repository?

John

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