Re: Official revision syntax for Subversion URLs

"Francois Beausoleil" <fbos@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> I believe that the http://svn/path/to/repos@XYZ/path/to/file is both
> closer to reality and hides many internal details when browsing the
> repository.

I am going to keep repeating this until it's no longer necessary:

The problem with all such proposals (i.e., one that put the revision
between the repository and the path-within-the-repository) is that it
is impossible to construct such a URL automatically.

In other words, given a regular URL -- one that does not specify any
revision -- one cannot textually transform it into a URL that includes
the revision, because one does not know where to insert the revision.

Thus, I think this family of syntaxes is doomed, at least until
someone explains a) why this isn't a fatal flaw, or b) a workaround.

-Karl

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Received on Tue Aug 5 19:56:58 2003