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Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 08:48:40 -0500
To: ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org
From: Russ Pridemore <pridemore@worldnet.att.net> (by way of "Ralph R. Swick" <swick@w3.org>)
Subject: Re: WebDAV Versioning Scenarios
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Old-Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 10:56:52 -0500
From: Russ Pridemore <pridemore@worldnet.att.net>
Reply-To: Russ.Pridemore@bigfoot.com
To: ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org
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This makes a lot of sense to me. I would almost call it a
breakthrough simplification. One question did come to
mind, however: is a revision selection rule immutable?
Russ
jamsden@us.ibm.com wrote:
> A workspace describes dynamic or variable a set of revisions. It represents
> a place where a client or group of clients does work by making changes to
> resources directed at some desired end result. A workspace has a revision
> selection rule that describes the revisions that were selected by the
> workspace creator. A workspace MAY dynamically update its contents based on
> changes in the revision selection rule, or changes to resources managed by
> the server, e.g., creation of new versioned resources, labeling revisions,
> checking in working resources in an activity, updating a configuration,
> etc. However, a server is not required to support dynamic revision
> selection. Clients can use the REFRESH method to update the contents of a
> workspace at any time. On REFRESH, the contents of the workspace is
> refreshed with revisions as specified by the revision selection rule,
> except for existing working resources. When a workspace is first created,
> it MAY be empty. The first REFRESH populates the workspace with selected
> revisions. On servers that do not support dynamic revision selection, the
> revision selection rule only documents the revisions that were selected on
> the last refresh, and cannot be relied upon to accurately reflect the exact
> revisions that are contained in the workspace. Another refresh may be
> required to update the revisions selected by the workspace.
>