Re: Finishing relative svn:externals

Blair Zajac wrote:
> Proposal
> ========
>
> 1) Be as RFC 3986 compliant as we can.
>
> 2) The relative URLs are:
>
> relative to current directory
> ../../branches/1.4.x

Since r23746 we support both "URL TARGET_DIR" and "TARGET_DIR URL" in
externals definitions, so using relative paths for URLs might be ambiguous.

> relative to repository root
> ^branches/1.4.x

This is somewhat bikesheddy, but I'd very much prefer '//' to '^' for
this purpose, for at least three reasons:

1) ^ is not really a forbidden character in paths, so again, there's
potential for ambiguity
2) // is easier to type and feels less 'magic'; this is important if we
are going to use the same syntax on the command line
3) there are already people building wrappers around svn with exactly
this syntax: http://code.google.com/p/gvn/

> relative to server root
> /svn/repos/branches/1.4.x

Do we really need this? We can refer to paths in the same repository
using the syntax above, and to paths in other repositories on the same
server using //../some_other_project/foo/bar (since repositories usually
have a common parent path).

> relative to scheme
> //svn.collab.net/svn/repos/branches/1.4.x
>

I guess I don't really see the point for this one either.

-- 
Vlad
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