- From: Werner Donné <werner.donne@re.be>
- Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 17:12:51 +0100
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: Geoffrey M Clemm <geoffrey.clemm@us.ibm.com>, ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org
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... > > > -- Werner Donné -- Re Engelbeekstraat 8 B-3300 Tienen tel: (+32) 486 425803 e-mail: werner.donne@re.be
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