Re: [PATCH][RFC] allow local file:// URLs for svnadmin

Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> Philip Martin wrote on Fri, 4 Dec 2009 at 15:51 -0000:
> > Julian Foad <[email protected]> writes:
> > 
> > > Vincent Legoll wrote:
> > >> I think there's nothing preventing svnadmin to accept local
> > >> file:// URLs as repository location parameter. So why not ?
> > 
> > I think it's a bad idea because svnadmin doesn't use the RA layer.
> 
> That's my initial reaction as well.  Nowhere do we accept file:/// URLs 
> instead of paths: not in the API, not in svn (you can't say 
> "svn info file://path/to/wc"), etc.

Spurious analogy. We're not talking about accepting URLs to WCs, only to
repositories. The converse comparison is: nowhere do we not accept a URL
to refer to a repository, except currently in svnadmin/svnlook. (Sure,
there's the "not a general RA access" argument, etc. to consider, and
I'm not fighting for accepting it, just responding to your statement.)

- Julian

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