Re: Baselines vs. labels
jamsden@us.ibm.com
Mon, 6 Dec 1999 10:51:57 -0500
From: jamsden@us.ibm.com
To: ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org
Message-ID: <8525683F.00573332.00@d54mta03.raleigh.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 10:51:57 -0500
Subject: Re: Baselines vs. labels
"Eric Sedlar" <esedlar@us.oracle.com> on 12/04/99 03:37:30 PM
To: ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org
cc:
Subject: Baselines vs. labels
Can someone give a bit of rationale for when you use baselines and when
you use a label applied recursively to all the elements of a
collection? Is a baseline just a specialized case of a label?
Eric,
The difference is that labels can move while the members of a baseline or
versioned configuration don't change. So while labels can be used to create
cheap "labeled configurations", they aren't stable and are subject to easy
change. Clients are welcome to use them this way as long as they follow
established conventions about promoting, removing, and otherwise moving
labels.
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