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Re: Official revision syntax for Subversion URLs

From: Francois Beausoleil <fbos_at_users.sourceforge.net>
Date: 2003-08-05 19:58:05 CEST

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 ?

Just to start the discussion going ;)

Bye !
François

On 05 Aug 2003 12:17:15 -0500, kfogel@collab.net said:
> "Francois Beausoleil" <fbos@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> > I believe that the http://svn/path/to/repos@XYZ/path/to/file is both
> > closer to reality and hides many internal details when browsing the
> > repository.
>
> I am going to keep repeating this until it's no longer necessary:
>
> 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.
>
> Thus, I think this family of syntaxes is doomed, at least until
> someone explains a) why this isn't a fatal flaw, or b) a workaround.
>
> -Karl
Developer of Java Gui Builder
http://jgb.sourceforge.net/

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