Re: Official revision syntax for Subversion URLs

Karl Fogel wrote:
> 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.

Francois Beausoleil wrote:
> Probably an unacceptable workaround, but could SVN not require the repos
> root be rooted at some specific spot ? Such as requiring the last
> component of the repository contain a specific string ?

That could work. I think you mean: if the form of a "regular URL" was such that the division between repository and path-within-repository could always be identified, then it would be obvious where to insert a revision number, so the problem is solved. Of course it would be a bit awkward to change the existing URL format now, but, if it were so, would that not be a good solution? If so, we could then discuss whether it would really be worth changing over, and exactly what syntax to use.

This possibly ties in with a long-standing proposal to make the same distinction (between repository and path-within-rpository) in working copy administrative data.

- Julian

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Received on Wed Aug 6 02:23:52 2003