Re: Official revision syntax for Subversion URLs

cmpilato@collab.net writes:

> We already have a quoting mechanism: URI encoding. As long as we
> choose a character which is required to be escaped by the r00lz of
> URIs, then when we see that character prefixing a revision indication,
> we know one of two things:
>
> a) the user is passing an invalid URI to the program, or
> b) the user is indication a revision as part of his URI

There is a character that fits those criteria: the semicolon. It's
not used by much; I only know of its use by Java Servlets, which use
it for session tracking.

Something like http://example.com/repos/project/trunk/README;500 or
...;r=500 seems good to me.

-- 
"Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted."
        -- Fred Allen
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