> -----Original Message-----
> From: SteveKing [mailto:steveking@gmx.ch]
> Sent: 05 May 2005 13:03
> To: dev@tortoisesvn.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: [TSVN] Repo browser -- cannot change repository URL
>
> Peter Mounce wrote:
>
> > I haven't had a chance to update from r3197 yet. But a
> suggestion anyway:
> >
> > Have two comboboxes for the repo browser url. The first
> defines the
> > url to the root of the repository; the second defines the
> path within
> > the repository.
>
> This, as your description (which I cut) looks very good, but
> unfortunately only on the surface. With two comboboxes you
> can't select an URL from e.g. a website and paste it into
> them anymore: into which combobox would you paste it? If in
> the 'root' box: what should that box cache now? The whole
> URL? But that's almost certainly not a root URL.
> If in the second box: how to check for the root? And here
> again: what should be stored in the history?
If users want to paste in a url, they should paste into the root box, but it
wouldn't get cached. The repo browser would open as usual, but also kick
off a process that finds the repo root (which presumably can be done by
recursing up the tree until it hits that 405 error, PROPFIND request
failed), caches _that_ and then adds the now-known path to the path cache
for that repo (if it's not already there).
If the user enters something into the path box at the same time they pasted
into the root box, the two parts should be concatenated and that's what
should be attempted to be opened. Or perhaps the path box should get
disabled iff a url is pasted as opposed to typed?
That would happen transparently to the user - he doesn't need to know that's
happening behind the scenes...?
> I think this would not be worth the work it requires - it
> just has a big sign on it which says PROBLEMS and user FAQ's.
You're probably right ;-)
Peter Mounce
IML Ltd
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Received on Mon May 9 10:32:11 2005