RE: Re: Official revision syntax for Subversion URLs

Greg,

I think you may have found the "blinders" we're all wearing on this
problem...

There's one more end we can manipulate on a URL.

I have NO IDEA what implications or side effects this may have, but how
about putting it at the beginning of the URL. Something like:

http://host/path/to/repos

vs.

http://host/#1234/path/to/repos

Anyone can find the end of the HOSTNAME (albeit, not with both eyes
shut), and relative browsing should still work, within the same revision
of the repository. Sure we'll have to specify some magic syntax (maybe
not #) that will make it clear it's a revision number, not a directory,
but avoiding that syntax puts the requirement only on the repository
administrator, not on everyone who adds files.

What side effects did I miss?

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Hudson [mailto:ghudson@MIT.EDU]
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 1:17 PM
To: kfogel@collab.net
Cc: dev@subversion.tigris.org
Subject: Re: Official revision syntax for Subversion URLs

On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 13:10, kfogel@collab.net wrote:
> The point is to be able to construct a revision-specific URL
> *without* contacting the repository. In other words, you just
> take a regular URL and apply a textual transformation to it.

> A proposal that doesn't satisfy this criterion is going to get -1'd
> very quickly, I'm sure.

Well, this is a problem, then. Anything we stick at the end won't work
with relative browsing. Anything we stick in the middle won't allow
uninformed textual transforms.

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