On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 04:52:43PM -0400, Richard Cavell wrote:
> Hi, everyone.
>
> 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? Is there a way, or a need, to ever tell svn which part of the URL is real and which is virtual?
It walks the path upwards (starting a 'four') and looks for a directory
which contains a file called 'format' and a directory called 'db' on
the OS filesystem (not in the versioned tree, of course).
This directory is assumed to be the repository root.
See svn_repos_find_root_path() in
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/subversion/libsvn_repos/repos.c
Received on 2011-11-05 10:50:30 CET