Re: DAV:revisions property for a workspace resource

From: Edgar Schwarz (Edgar.Schwarz@marconicomms.com)
Date: Fri, Apr 14 2000

  • Next message: Geoffrey M. Clemm: "Re: DAV:revisions property for a workspace resource"

    Message-ID: <38F73334.6550774@marconicomms.com>
    Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 17:03:16 +0200
    From: Edgar Schwarz <Edgar.Schwarz@marconicomms.com>
    To: ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org
    Subject: Re: DAV:revisions property for a workspace resource
    
    Geoffrey M. Clemm wrote:
    > 
    >    From: jamsden@us.ibm.com
    > 
    >    Maybe a workspace should just be a collection? Note that if we do
    >    this, and have workspace revisions play the role of
    >    configurations/baselines, then you wouldn't be able to have
    >    configurations/workspace without versioned collections unless the
    >    server did special cases for workspaces.
    > I guess we could do that if we *really* wanted to confuse people (:-).
    I'm not sure. I also think similar to Jim. To the contrary, I feel
    a little bit confused about the talk about activities and workspaces.
    IMHO we can achieve already a lot by not introducing many new terms.
    If we call a revision of a collection a configuration we already have
    a lot of options.
    If I want to work on a set of files I just do a checkout on a
    versioned collection which contains them.
    When I'm finished I just checkin all the files and collections I
    worked on.
    I don't say that workspaces and activities aren't needed for certain
    stuff. But versionend collections are a more basic principle because
    it's just an extension of versioning from atomic resources to
    collections.
    Then I have another question (Sorry if it was already discussed, but
    the traffic in the mailing list is so high that I can't read all):
    I edit a big file, only change a couple of bytes and do a checkin.
    Can I just send some delta information to the server instead of
    using all the bandwidth for my big file ?
    
    Cheers, Edgar
    
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