RE: weak etags vs PATCH, was: Fwd: New Version Notification - draft-dusseault-http-patch-15.txt

Roy T. Fielding wrote:
> On Oct 19, 2009, at 6:38 PM, Brian Smith wrote:
> There is nothing stopping the patch format from including a
> strong version indicator, content hash, or even a context-based
> collaborative merging mechanism in the format itself.  The notion
> that PATCH must use conditionals is absurd given that the original
> idea came from the patch command that intentionally supports
> non-overlapping edits in any sequence.

Yes, of course. I overlooked the obvious there. 
Regards,
Brian

Received on Tuesday, 20 October 2009 03:33:44 UTC