I'll throw another bit into the fire - if the project accept my solution
(redirect to the proper 'internal' URL when a query "svn.revision=xxx"
is seen), I'll let you assign the issue to me ;-)
If the internal repository URLs change in the future, we can just update
the redirect logic later.
-David Waite
kfogel@collab.net wrote:
>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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