Re: Finishing relative svn:externals

> I'm picking up feature to support relative URLs in svn:externals:
>
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> Proposal
> ========
>
> 1) Be as RFC 3986 compliant as we can.
>
> 2) The relative URLs are:
>
> relative to current directory
> ../../branches/1.4.x
> relative to repository root
> ^branches/1.4.x
> relative to server root
> /svn/repos/branches/1.4.x
> relative to scheme
> //svn.collab.net/svn/repos/branches/1.4.x
>
Apologies if it's rather too late to bring this up, I wasn't subscribed
the the dev mailing list and have only just noticed this thread.

I was just wondering whether it might make more sense to instead
construct repository root relatives paths as,

^/branches/1.4.x

It certainly seems to more intuitive to me. '^' is a directory, just as
are '..', '.' and '~', and paths relative to them are constructed as
'../path', './path', '~/path', so why not treat '^' the same?

Regards,

Chris

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Received on Sat Aug 18 13:40:38 2007