> I think RTH's suggestion of using a "+" or similar symbol to indicate the
> root is a good one. Another possibility (not mutually exclusive with that
> one) is to have some shorthand like using ".." in a context where a URL
> is required to "do the right thing". (Obviously an issue here is in
> determining whether something is a URL or filename, so maybe something
> like "%.." or "-.." is needed.)
I think you're missing an important point about URLs.
It's an URL. If you want to add an extension, use the URL syntax!
RTH's suggestion should be +:something/here at least, or preferably
some [a-z]+ before the colon. We already have svn:, http:, and
svn+ssh:. There's no reason why we can't have tag: or root:
SVN developers: A question: How hard is it to add a new URL method to
the current sources? Could we add, for example:
root:foo/bar -> svn+ssh://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/foo/bar
(or whatever your working root is)
tag:foo/bar -> (something)/bar
("something" is looked up in .svnrc by "foo")
> There's no real need for this to live in svn itself.
I think a generic mapping solution can work for gcc and benefit other
SVN users as well.
