Stefan Sperling wrote on Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 21:10:20 +0100:
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 07:16:24PM +0200, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> > Stefan Sperling wrote on Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 16:59:11 +0100:
> > > But I also think that the check for an existing repository should
> > > work within any subdirectory of the repository, not just within the
> > > top-level directory of the repository.
> > >
> > > Can you help by filing a DEFECT issue in our issue tracker
> > > (http://subversion.tigris.org/issue-tracker.html) requesting that the
> > > check be expanded to also work within subdirectories of a repository?
> >
> > Don't. It's already this way. Hyrum+I wrote it some time back.
> >
> > The reason? Because the URLs would be ambiguous: what should
> > % svn info file://$PWD/path/to/dir/trunk | grep -i 'repository root:'
> > print?
>
> What has this got to do with running svnadmin create within repos/db
> or repos/hooks?
>
> Maybe you qouted the wrong paragraph and you were referring to
> the ENHANCEMENT I mentioned that would allow creating nested
> repositories? I've since changed my mind.
I was trying to say that nested repositories are blocked (at any
depth-distance) because any URL referring to the deeper repository could
also refer to the parent/ancestor repository, and there's no way to
resolve the ambiguity.
Received on 2011-02-11 21:15:44 CET