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Posted to dev@subversion.apache.org by Peter Davis <pe...@pediddle.net> on 2003/08/26 04:25:56 UTC
Relative URLs for svn:external
Would it be possible to implement relative URLs in svn:externals? For
example:
svn:externals:
foo http://server/repos/foo
bar ../xyz/relative-URL-to-bar/
Right now it results in:
Fetching external item into bar
svn: Bad URL passed to RA layer
svn: Unrecognized URL scheme: "../xyz/relative-URL-to-bar/"
My reasoning is twofold:
(1) Without a real "svn link" command, svn:externals is the easiest way to
have a "live copy" of one part of a repository to another.
(2) Users can access the repository using all sorts of methods (http,
https,
svn, svn+ssh, etc.) and even different host names. Not all methods work
for all users (note how collab.net provides port 81 as well as port 80 so
that some people can get around stupid proxies). Relative URLs allow the
protocol and server name to change depending on the users' needs.
Without relativity, svn:externals' use as a substitute for
intra-repository
links is limited.
Thoughts?
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Peter Davis <pe...@pediddle.net>
Furthermore, I believe bacon prevents hair loss!
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Re: Relative URLs for svn:external
Posted by William Uther <wi...@cse.unsw.edu.au>.
On Tuesday, August 26, 2003, at 02:25 PM, Peter Davis wrote:
> Would it be possible to implement relative URLs in svn:externals? For
> example:
> Thoughts?
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1336
Yes please!
Will :-}
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RE: Relative URLs for svn:external
Posted by Mats Nilsson <ma...@xware.se>.
Here's another point supporting this idea.
(3) When copying a complete directory structure, svn:externals pointing
to other places within the same directory tree will continue to point to
meaningful locations in the copy.
E.g: Given this tree:
/projectA/trunk/common/
subproj1/
svn:externals: common ../common
subproj2/
svn:externals: common ../common
tags/
$ svn cp http://foo.com/projectA/trunk http://foo.com/projectA/tags/1.0
would correctly be preserving links from the subproj directories to
their related 'common' directory. Of course, this scheme breaks if just
subproj1 is copied to somewhere.
Mats
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Davis [mailto:pediddle@pediddle.net]
> Sent: den 26 augusti 2003 06:26
> To: dev@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Relative URLs for svn:external
>
>
> Would it be possible to implement relative URLs in svn:externals? For
> example:
>
> svn:externals:
> foo http://server/repos/foo
> bar ../xyz/relative-URL-to-bar/
>
> Right now it results in:
>
> Fetching external item into bar
> svn: Bad URL passed to RA layer
> svn: Unrecognized URL scheme: "../xyz/relative-URL-to-bar/"
>
>
> My reasoning is twofold:
>
> (1) Without a real "svn link" command, svn:externals is the
> easiest way to
> have a "live copy" of one part of a repository to another.
>
> (2) Users can access the repository using all sorts of methods (http,
> https,
> svn, svn+ssh, etc.) and even different host names. Not all
> methods work
> for all users (note how collab.net provides port 81 as well
> as port 80 so
> that some people can get around stupid proxies). Relative
> URLs allow the
> protocol and server name to change depending on the users' needs.
>
> Without relativity, svn:externals' use as a substitute for
> intra-repository
> links is limited.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> --
> Peter Davis <pe...@pediddle.net>
> Furthermore, I believe bacon prevents hair loss!
>
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