Re: Comments on Action:draft-brown-versioning-link-relations-03

Geoffrey M Clemm <[email protected]> Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:09:46 -0500
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Yes, once one goes to more advanced features (like branches and tags), it 
becomes harder to find or agree on common link types.
Note that RFC-3253 defines a full versioning protocol, including branches 
(called "activities") and tags (called "baselines).

Cheers,
Geoff

Julian Reschke wrote on 11/26/2009 10:58:37 AM:
> Sam Johnston wrote:
>  ...
> > I also wonder whether it makes sense to offer links to "native" 
revision 
> > control (e.g. hg, git, svn, etc.) and/or web interfaces to them - and 
> > then specifics like branches and tags, and what a URI/URL to a 
> > branch/tag would even look like.
> 
> That's an interesting thought, but appears to be a much more complex 
> problem that the one we wanted to solve here.
> 
> Best regards, Julian
>