Re: [viewvc-users] Force SVN over CVS in URL

On 04/13/2012 02:26 AM, Peter Funk wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> C. Michael Pilato schrieb am Donnerstag, den 12.04.2012 um 16:40:
>> Unfortunately, that wouldn't help the other common situation:  multiple
>> roots with the same name *from the same VC system*.  Users have been
>> clamoring for a virtual root system within ViewVC for some time that would
>> help eliminate all those problems, allowing you to expose, say,
>> "/viewvc/cvs/foo" and "/viewvc/svn/foo" URLs in order to distinguish the
>> two.  But I've not yet found the time to look into that (and specifically,
>> to look into doing that without breaking existing bookmarked URLs folks
>> already have in place).
> 
> Just an idea:  What about using some special symbol to distinguish
> such new virtual root URLs from the traditional ones?  Example::
>    /viewvc/++vroot++/cvs/foo
>    /viewvc/++vroot++/svn/foo
> This way the old URLs would behave as before.
> 
> Unfortunately I'm busy in an urgent project until May.  
> Otherwise I would have tried to provide a patch doing this.

I've considered something like this before.

Stepping back a bit for the wider view, I've also been tempted to do
something a bit more flexible and just introduce URL format versions:

   /viewvc/*1*/...
   /viewvc/*2*/...

This would allow me to arbitrarily redefine the URL formats in what would be
compatibility-busting ways from time to time, and just bump the format
number -- which is carried in the URL itself -- when I do so.

Cheesy?  Oh yeah.  But sooooooo forward-looking.

-- 
C. Michael Pilato <[email protected]>
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