Re: New basic feature ?

Greg Hudson wrote:
> If you're running it as a daemon, you can specify a root path which is
> functionally similar to ParentPath.

Could the use of -r function exactly like ParentPath is used under
Apache? If -r is specified when starting svnserve as a daemon, and if
the client requests the root/empty path, then iterate over the
subdirectories of the root path and return a virtual listing.

I also don't see why a new command would necessarily be required; just
overload `svn ls` for that purpose (and forbid anything else like mkdir,
copy, del, and other URL commands). But I don't know the RA layer at
all, so I'm not sure this is even possible.

> I wouldn't really favor adding this feature; it feels muddy and is
> handled pretty easily out of band. But it shouldn't be dismissed out of
> hand as not making sense.

I wasn't trying to argue that it doesn't make sense, but that it was
very much counter to the way that svnserve operates [currently]. There
are other ways to resolve this issue out of band (merely having a
webpage that lists the various repositories, even if the actual access
is strictly svn://)...

John

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