Re: Relationship between BIND and RFC 3253

There are indeed no additional semantics for UNCHECKOUT in section 14.
Therefore, I think the semantics of section section 4.5 apply, because
a version-controlled collection is also a version-controlled resource.

Though the introduction of section 14 mentions workspaces, I don't think
the merge feature is limited to workspaces. It is allowed to use a
version-controlled collection as the request URI and a collection  
version
as the source. If both would be associated with the same version  
history,
for example, it would be strange if in such a case new version- 
controlled
members would be created as described in section 4.11.

Werner.

On 07 Oct 2008, at 14:45, Julian Reschke wrote:

> Werner Donné wrote:
>> Hi Julian,
>> Why is it only valid inside a workspace?
>> Best regards,
>> Werner.
>
> The behavior for UNCHECKOUT on versioned collections isn't described  
> in RFC3253, but the errata list (<http://www.webdav.org/deltav/protocol/rfc3253-issues-list.htm 
> >) says:
>
> "14_MISSING_ SEMANTICS
> 	
> Editorial
> 	
> Editor
> 	
> The semantics of UNCHECKOUT applied to a version-controlled  
> collection is undefined.
> 	
> Julian Reschke: message
> 	
> Define UNCHECKOUT semantics to be those of doing an UPDATE to the  
> DAV:checked-out version."
>
>
> What's relevant is 14.11 (IMHO), which says:
>
> "...If a new version-controlled member is in a workspace that  
> already has a version-controlled resource for that version history,  
> then the new version-controlled member MUST be just a binding (i.e.,  
> another name for) that existing version-controlled resource.  
> Otherwise, the content and dead properties of the new version- 
> controlled member MUST have been initialized to be those of the  
> version specified for that version history by the request..."
>
> So it seems that creating a *different* version controlled resource  
> would be allowed here.
>
> BR, Julian
>

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