Re: COPY collection to an existing resource

Julian Reschke <[email protected]> Wed, 12 Jul 2006 12:07:23 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.deltav
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Werner Donné schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> Say we want to copy a collection to an existing version controlled
> resource in a repository that puts everything under version control
> automatically. The version history of the destination should be
> kept and the resource should be updated.
> 
> What should happen if the source and destination collection have
> internal members with the same name? Should the internal members
> in the destination collection also be updated or should the
> destination collection get new version controlled resources for
> those?

I think they should be updated, although RFC3253 isn't very clear on 
that. Check 
<http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc3253.html#rfc.section.1.7> and 
<http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-ietf-webdav-rfc2518bis-15.html#rfc.section.9.8.4>.

Best regards, Julian