Re: Official revision syntax for Subversion URLs

Okay, I'm beginning to think we don't urgently need to solve this
problem (a sentiment others have already expressed).

The original motivation for this thread was that Mickael Marchand
invented a "path?rev" syntax for Subversion URLs, presumably entered
into text fields in KDE.

We should discourage ad hoc syntax creation, so that users don't get
misled into thinking there's a cross-environment standard where there
isn't one. (Hence I've CC'd Mickael on this mail.)

But it's not necessarily urgent that we choose a standard before SVN
1.0 -- sure, it would be nice, but I can see it's going to be a rather
long discussion, and we don't know how hard it will be to implement on
the server side even once we know the syntax.

So Mickael, can you arrange the interface in some other way -- either
don't offer specific revision functionality, or put the revision
number in a separate text field? That solves the "creeping standard"
problem; we can discuss longer-term solutions on the Subversion dev
list at our no-doubt-copious leisure.

-Karl

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Received on Wed Aug 6 00:10:24 2003