Re: Official revision syntax for Subversion URLs

Jack Repenning <jrepenning@collab.net> writes:
> I think the requirement to find the repo point in a URL automatically
> is real, but it's a requirement for "tools like viewcvs or
> TortoiseSVN," Users work with the same repos every day; their primary
> means of parsing the URL is "hey, Joe, which part of this is the
> repository????" And this works just fine in the case at hand ;-)

Not in the free-for-all universe, where you're accessing some
anonymous open source repository that you've never seen before.

Sure, people familiar with a repository probably know where it begins
and ends in the URL. But we shouldn't depend on familiarity, because
it introduces a "you have to contact a knowledgeable human" step where
there doesn't need to be one.

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Received on Tue Aug 5 20:13:29 2003