Re: Linking to specific revisions of a document for conventional web browsers

On Tuesday 04 November 2008 15:21:46 Paul Richards wrote:
> I have my subversion repository available over http (via apache) and I
> like giving out links to documents that can generally be used in a web
> browser. For example http://someserver/svn/folder/file.java will open
> up when pasted into Firefox.
>
> Is there a way to write one of these http URLs so that it references a
> specific revision of the document and not just the latest revision?
>
>
> I understand that many of the command line tools accept "@REV"
> suffixes, but this does not work in my browser.
>
> I also understand that I could tag any documents which I need to link
> to specific revisions of, but I'd like not to need this.

I think that this is the limitation of viewing the svn repository directly
with apache.
For what you want, viewvc is the solution.

-- 
Bogdan Cristea
software engineer
Sytron Technologies Overseas
www.sytron.ro
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