Re: Enforce canonical paths in client-server protocol? [was: svn commit: r12738 - in trunk/subversion: include libsvn_subr mod_dav_svn]

On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Julian Foad wrote:

> Peter N. Lundblad wrote:
> > Also, we have a release
> > version whihc would break in this case (referring to the svnserve fixes in
> > 1.1.2).
>
> What would break in what case? And is your example (presumably a 1.1.2 client
> or server against a 2.x other end) likely to work at all anyway?
>
The current SVN protocol spec states that both ends should canonicalize
their paths. We will break clients if they rely on this, as clients have
already done.

This might be a minor problem, but, as ghudson points out, is it worth the
trouble?

Also, this change was explicitly approved before the backport. Just for
the record:-)

Regards,
//Peter

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Received on Sun Jan 16 21:54:33 2005