Re: Official revision syntax for Subversion URLs

At 10:49 AM -0700 8/5/03, Robert Spier wrote:
>Pretend you're a RapidSVN developer,

Does that mean "a developer of RapidSVN"? If so, then I think
RapidSVN is one of "those tools" with a need to do this. In my last
message I only pointed out that mere humans, working against their
familiar repositories, have extra-syntactical ways to do so (which, I
think, would include "a developer who uses RapidSVN," if that's what
you meant).

Now, how can "one of those tools" achieve the goal? I can think of three ways:

- Search for it. Keep prune the path and contact the server to see
if he still thinks this is a resource (the API equivalent of "svn
stat" ought to do the job).

- Modify SVN to record this in .svn/* (probably "entries", say by
adding a token "repo=someHeadOfUrl").

- Extend SVN to provide an API call to return this (given a URL,
return some head of that URL). The library would be free to
implement it in either of the above ways, or any other clever thing
someone might come up with.

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