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Re: feature suggestion: adressing the repo relative to working copy url

From: Lorenz <lorenznl_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 15:10:52 +0000

Branko ?ibej wrote:

>On 22.02.2017 17:42, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
>> Lorenz wrote on Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 15:28:19 +0000:
>>> Stefan Sperling wrote:
>>> >From 'svn help ps':
>>>> The URL may be a full URL or a relative URL starting with one of:
>>>> ../ to the parent directory of the extracted external
>>>> ^/ to the repository root
>>>> / to the server root
>>>> // to the URL scheme
>>>> ^/../ to a sibling repository beneath the same SVNParentPath location
>>> I am aware of the svn:externals syntax, but in light of the fact that
>>> ^/ was alread adopted, I thought it best to stick with the ^
>>>
>>> If the cmomand line client accepts the ^ as the "translate the
>>> following path to an URL" marker, then anything after it could be
>>> interpreted as a normal path.
>>>
>>> ^/ repo root relative
>>> ^/../name sibling repo
>>>
>>> ^subpath subpath of the current working copy folder
>>> ^../ parent
>>> ^../path sibling
>>> ^../../ grand parent
>> If the first of these four were changed to require a ./ path component,
>
>... then it would not be backward compatible with existing syntax.
>[...]

hm, to what existing syntax would "^./subpath" be in conflict with?

-- 
Lorenz
Received on 2017-02-23 16:11:51 CET

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