Re: DIFF method

This is focused on flat files. For that you can extract both and
perform diff and patch. In the context of a document repository
you would do a merge. The diff in the server is necessary because
in a versioning system users want to be able to inspect changes
in the version history. The result of a DIFF is no different than
that of a GET. Only the processing is different.

Julian Reschke wrote:
> Werner Donné wrote:
>> Julian,
>>
>> What would clients do with the format? Present the result?
>> Servers could generate HTML.
> 
> I would expect that the response from a DIFF could be applied by a
> client to an existing copy, effectively patching it. But that requires a
> standard format...
> 
> 
> 

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