Re: SVNROOT (again)

Micah Elliott wrote:

> My goal is to not have to write an analogous 'svnwrapper', even
> if it's just a small bash function. Though it's looking
> inevitable. The acceptable svn anolog would be:
>
> svn checkout //6.0
> # or
> svn checkout //branches/6.0

Well, checkouts won't work because there's no URL to pull the repository root from.

> Am I the only one in this predicament of having to enable Average
> Joe Developer?
>
> SVK has adopted and conventionalized the '//' syntax. Does
> that help to justify Subversion's adoption? (I realize '//' is a
> synonym for '/' on unix, but I don't find that a compelling
> reason not to use it.)

I just put in relative externals for 1.5 which could be useful for a base for
this discussion. We choose to use ^/ for repository root and // for scheme
relative URLs to be consistent with various RFCs.

Blair

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