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Re: SVNROOT (again)

From: Blair Zajac <blair_at_orcaware.com>
Date: 2007-10-19 22:22:37 CEST

Micah Elliott wrote:
> On 2007-10-18 Blair Zajac wrote:
>
>
>> 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.

I'll be updating the 1.5 release notes with some examples in the next week.

>
> I can't seem to figure out what "relative externals" are. But
> I probably don't need to know. I would sure like to see those
> two syntaxes enabled for all commands. I'm already testing v1.5
> (r26502) but I don't see any indication that ^/ or // are
> functional (though I'm probably using them in the wrong context
> if they're particular to relative externals).
>
> Anyway, I'm very pleased to see this being worked on. I'm not crazy
> about ^/ -- seems a little awkward to type and associate, but you
> probably have good reasons for preferring it. I really like //.
>
> (Maybe the design discussion for the syntax should be over on the
> dev@ list. Let me know if you'd like me to start a thread.)

The syntax was already decided upon and agreed upon by several full svn
committers, plus the it's now baked into code.

Here's the conversation:

http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2007-07/0509.shtml

Blair

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