RE: error condition for delete of VHR when VCR is in checked-in c ollection from Julian Reschke on 2002-07-09 (ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org from July to September 2002)

From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@greenbytes.de>
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 09:52:23 +0200
To: "Clemm, Geoff" <gclemm@rational.com>, <ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org>
Message-ID: <JIEGINCHMLABHJBIGKBCIEJJEOAA.julian.reschke@greenbytes.de>

>    The issue is that RFC3253 doesn't define a method to switch off
>    version control on a resource, and therefore people are using
>    deletion on VHRs to switch off versioning (I couldn't find any
>    mention of this in the spec, though).
>
> I don't recall hearing of this approach, and don't see how it could be
> compatible with the spec, giving the DAV:delete-version-set
> postcondition.

Clarification: people use deletion of the VHR to both delete the VHR and
un-version-control the VCR. How would that violate the DELETE sematics for
VHRs?

Received on Tuesday, 9 July 2002 03:52:56 UTC