Re: Virtual filesystems

On Nov 4, 2011, at 15:52, Richard Cavell wrote:

> In a URL such as:
>
> file:///one/two/three/four
>
> It may be that the repository is actually at /one/two, and the three/four are directories within the repository.
>
> How does subversion identify which slashes are virtual and which ones are real? Does it search each part of the path to see if it's a valid repository, and then step into it?

I don't know how Subversion does it. Does it matter?

> Is there a way, or a need, to ever tell svn which part of the URL is real and which is virtual?

No.

However, you can get Subversion to tell you; look in "svn info file:///one/two/three/four".
Received on 2011-11-05 08:07:21 CET