file:/// protocol

Hi
 
I would like to understand how a file:/// <file:///> url works.
Consider a command such as:
 
svn co file:///usr/local/svn-repos/sesame/trunk
<file:///usr/local/svn-repos/sesame/trunk> sesame
 
here /usr/local/svn-repos is an actual path in the operating system's
file system. But /sesame/trunk is a path within Subversion's file
system. So the above url does not point to a literal file.
 
What magic does file:/// <file:///> perform to make this work?
 
Just curious.

David
Received on Tue Jul 24 16:53:01 2007