Re: Use of relative externals

Mark Phippard wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 5:05 AM, Simon Large
> <simon.tortoisesvn_at_googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> // relative to the URL scheme
>>
>> This just protects against a change of access method (http -> https) ?
>
> The opposite (although I might be reading you wrong). The idea here
> is that people with write access are using https:// and people with
> read access are using http://. With full URL's you cannot handle this
> really well. This allows the scheme to change based on the scheme
> used for checkout.

It sounds like you're both saying the same thing here.

>> / relative to the server's hostname
>>
>> Can't think of any stupid questions to ask about that :-)
>
> Reading the release notes, I now see that the text for this one and
> the previous is wrong. What this one adds to the above, is that it
> allows the scheme and hostname to vary. Picture someone on internal
> network that uses svn://internal-host and someone on outside that uses
> https://external-host.

The example resulting absolute URLs in the scheme-relative and hostname-relative
examples for the svn+ssh base URL was incorrect, I fixed this in r30805.

Regards,
Blair

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