RE: Moving a label

From: Jim Whitehead (ejw@ics.uci.edu)
Date: Mon, Jul 03 2000

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    From: Jim Whitehead <ejw@ics.uci.edu>
    To: ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org
    Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 17:51:47 -0700
    Message-ID: <NDBBIKLAGLCOPGKGADOJMEEODGAA.ejw@ics.uci.edu>
    Subject: RE: Moving a label
    
    
    > The semantics for LABEL have changed somewhat.  A client used to be able
    > to add a label to a revision and cause it to be moved from any other
    > revision -- this was a useful 'atomic' operation.  Now, it seems, the
    > client must remove then add the label to move it -- this may cause race
    > condition problems as well as inconsistencies if the client fails to
    > complete the add.
    
    Yep, I noticed this as well.  The "replace" operation within the LABEL
    method appears to be missing an operand.  It's replace X with Y, but right
    now the marshalling only includes "X" (well, it could be "Y" I suppose, but
    it's one or the other, not both).
    
    - Jim