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Re: Official revision syntax for Subversion URLs

From: Russell Yanofsky <rey4_at_columbia.edu>
Date: 2003-08-06 21:06:07 CEST

Jack Repenning wrote:
> At 10:24 PM -0400 8/5/03, Martin Ayotte wrote:
>>
>> Some people says...
>
> Huh. Well, I think all of those people you quote are me :-) And you
> left out one of my arguments, and I think failed to engage another
> quite head on.
>
> The missing argument: what do you say about the problem of relative
> hyperlinks buried inside a versioned HTML document? That is, if
> http://host/repo/path/foo.html@@17
> is an HTML document containing
> <a href="../elsewhere/otherpage.html">
> ... then it would be good if clicking that link in the displayed page
> reached "otherpage.html@@17", not "otherpage.html@@HEAD". But that
> decision will be made by the browser, not by SVN, and browsers don't
> have built-in rules to carry "@@17" around like that. But they DO
> have rules to link from
> http://host/repo/r17/path/to/foo.html
> via
> href="../elsewhere/otherpage.html"
> to
> http://host/repo/r17/path/elsewhere/otherpage.html
>
> Someone was horrified that I would expect this to work. Why should I
> not? It *will* work, so long as we don't make any mistakes right
> here in this discussion, it's immensely useful, and it's how the web
> works.

I agree that this is a really nice feature, but it wouldn't say it's
immensely useful. The only case I can think of where it would be useful is
viewing a repository of static html files with relative links. Are any there
other applications for this?

- Russ

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