"Han The Man" <hantheman12@hotmail.com> writes:
> I guess I set my goal to high when expecting a simple, polite yes/no
> answer. Irony is a great thing when it bites or explains. This was
> just pathetic.
I think the problem here is that we need a FAQ about this. You're
about the 20th person in the last year to request that Subversion
re-invent all ViewCVS functionality. It's been discussed to death,
and the consensus is that such a feature would be a) a huge amount of
work to support, and b) redundant with existing 3rd-party tools.
Perhaps the larger problem here is that we "tease" people into wanting
ViewCVS features, by allowing *any* sort of web browsing at all.
Technically, the WebDAV spec says that when a client (i.e. web
browser) does a GET request on a collection (directory), the server's
response is "undefined". That means we could legally throw a 404.
But instead, we decided to throw a cute little HTML listing of
directory-entries in the HEAD revision, just to be nice. But that's
the "tease" which leaves folks wanting more. Maybe that was a bad
decision in retrospect... especially since 'svn ls http://' will give
you exact same information. :-(
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Received on Thu Aug 21 20:14:44 2003