Re: "SVN short URL" enhancement request

Stefan Küng wrote:
>
> Beman Dawes wrote:
>> The "SVN short URL" column seems to work by dropping the leading portion
>> of
>> the URL up to, but not including, the first single slash.
>>
>> So "https://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/trunk" becomes "/svn/boost/trunk".
>>
>> Horizontal space is at a premium, so in the above case I'd like to also
>> drop
>> the "/svn/boost/" so the final result becomes simply "trunk".
>>
>> One way to make this work would be to attach an option to the top-level
>> directory of the working copy that says in effect "Drop this portion of
>> the
>> URL: ...", where the "..." is something the user can set. This setting
>> would
>> be inherited by any directories below the working copy root directory.
>>
>> So in my example above, I'd specify to drop "//svn.boost.org/svn/boost/".
>> The default would be the URL, in this case "//svn.boost.org" or maybe
>> "//svn.boost.org/" if the user does not supply a string.
>
> As of revision 10418, we check for /trunk, /branches or /tags in the url
> and remove everything before that. I think that's better than having
> some configuration. I know it's not perfect because there are situations
> where those folders are below the repository root, but the column is
> called 'short url' and we have nowhere defined what 'short' really is :)
>

On one hand, that's a nice improvement. It does, however, effectively
mandate using repository organizations with /trunk, /branches, and /tags
somewhere in every path if you want the short url.

When you say "remove everything before that", I hope you are also removing
the leading "/" from /trunk, /tags, and /branches. It takes up horizontal
space yet doesn't convey any useful information.

Thanks,

--Beman Dawes, boost.org

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