Julian Foad wrote on Fri, 4 Dec 2009 at 18:16 -0000:
> Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> > Philip Martin wrote on Fri, 4 Dec 2009 at 15:51 -0000:
> > > Julian Foad <julianfoad_at_btopenworld.com> writes:
> > >
> > > > Vincent Legoll wrote:
> > > >> I think there's nothing preventing svnadmin to accept local
> > > >> file:// URLs as repository location parameter. So why not ?
> > >
> > > I think it's a bad idea because svnadmin doesn't use the RA layer.
> >
> > That's my initial reaction as well. Nowhere do we accept file:/// URLs
> > instead of paths: not in the API, not in svn (you can't say
> > "svn info file://path/to/wc"), etc.
>
> Spurious analogy. We're not talking about accepting URLs to WCs, only to
> repositories.
I was in an "accept a file:// URL as an alias for the path it points to" mood.
> The converse comparison is: nowhere do we not accept a URL
> to refer to a repository, except currently in svnadmin/svnlook. (Sure,
> there's the "not a general RA access" argument, etc. to consider, and
> I'm not fighting for accepting it, just responding to your statement.)
>
In general, 'svn' mirrors the client API and 'svnadmin' mirrors the
repos API. If we want svnadmin to accept file:// URLs, shouldn't
svn_repos_open() accept them too?
(I'm not saying it shouldn't; I'm saying that, if svnadmin is extended,
we may extend the repos API in the same manner.)
> - Julian
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