Philip Martin wrote on Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 13:43:35 +0100:
> Daniel Shahaf <danielsh_at_elego.de> writes:
>
> > <idea age="old">
> >
> > % cat .subversion/config
> > [shorthand]
> > s7 = https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/branches/1.7.x
> > % svn info ^s7/ | grep URL
> > URL: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/branches/1.7.x
> >
> > </idea>
>
> If we implemented that would substitution occur in the client or the
> libraries? Would it apply to svn:externals?
We could break the API into two levels: a lower-level API that simply
exposes a hash of shortnames -> URLs and a higher-level API that takes
a URL such as ^foo/trunk and returns an absolute URL.
I don't think having ^s7/ URLs in externals is a good idea as it makes
the property values dependent upon ~/.subversion/config entries. We
might want to have ^svn:foo/some/dir/here/ style URLs too, though, where
^svn:foo/ are expanded, not by looking for a key called 'svn:foo' in the
config hash, but by some other means specific to each svn:%s key.
Received on 2011-09-09 15:06:23 CEST