"C. Michael Pilato" <cmpilato@collab.net> writes:
> Nonono. Please *do not* do this to public URL namespace. It's one
> thing to bind revision numbers to URLs in our command-line client
> syntax for the sake of UI and path/rev association simplicity (and
> yes, remember that this URL@REV syntax is not Subversion-wide -- it's
> only in our one little commandline client). But this change has no
> place trickling into mod_dav_svn.
Uh, why not make any such syntax Subversion-wide? I mean, this
is... Subversion, after all :-).
> I much prefer the !svn/rev/NNNNN/path syntax, because besides not
> destroying the integrity of our existing URL namespace (what happens
> if you have a file with '@[0-9]+' at the end of it under version
> control?),
Like I said, the same quoting mechanism would work as we currently use
for the client: tack on an empty "@", which means "@HEAD", or if you
want a particular revision, tack on "@NNN".
The quoting is a *solved* problem. That remains true if we start
using this syntax in more places.
> it allows for relative URLs in HTML documents served
> directory from mod_dav_svn to continue to work. An index.html with a
> URL of http://.../!svn/4500/index.html can reference "./logo.png" and
> the browser will know to use http://.../!svn/4500/logo.png to fetch
> that image.
The breaking of relative URLs is a valid objection, yeah. Thanks, I'd
forgotten about that one.
I do think browsers and clients need to support the same syntax. It
would just be ridiculous for people not to be able to cut-and-paste
between the two contexts.
This would imply that servers too should support the trailing-"@"
syntax, but that there should also be *another* syntax available to
both clients and servers (which is yucky, I freely confess, but maybe
not as yucky as not having the feature).
If we're going to go with a prefix syntax, in order to support
relative URLs, what is the quoting mechanism? Is it to specify HEAD
or a revnum in a prior prefix, like this?:
http://.../!svn/HEAD/!svn/4500/index.html
http://.../!svn/1729/!svn/4500/index.html
This would access either HEAD or r1729 of a file whose literal path is
"/!svn/4500/index.html".
Do we want "!svn", or maybe "!rev" to be clearer? Or "@rev"??
-Karl
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