Re: Broken URLs in Subversion README files

On 2011-01-18 00:22, Oftenwrong Soong wrote:
> Not sure if this is considered a bug that needs reporting...
>
> Many of the README files contained within Subversion's source distribution
> contain references to the old http://subversion.tigris.org/ URLs. For example,
> tools/README happily says that information about the scripts in that directory
> can be found at:
>
> http://subversion.tigris.org/tools_contrib.html
>
> but this URL is broken. Substituting apache.org for tigris.org produces a 404
> error.

The "contrib" section of the Subversion repository and the related
documentation is no longer actively maintained by the Apache Subversion
team.

> I hope the documents that were once hosted at tigris.org are not lost forever!

Well, there's always the Wayback Machine...

http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

http://web.archive.org/web/20080822082136/http://subversion.tigris.org/tools_contrib.html

Then again, there's always the history in the Subversion repository itself:

http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/subversion/branches/1.5.x/www/tools_contrib.html?view=co

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