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From: "Boris Bokowski/OTT/OTI" <Boris_Bokowski@oti.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 18:22:40 -0400
Subject: Re: are workspaces versionable?
From: jamsden@us.ibm.com
Workspaces are not versionable, but they can have associated baselines.
A
server would not be able to automatically put them under version
control.
They are versioning meta-data.
This makes it difficult to make use of the DAV:version-set of baselines,
because there is no convenient way of finding out the root (or the
top-level elements) of that baseline, and the bindings to these top-level
elements - their names - are not available. Or is there a way of
determining the names of the top-level elements in a baseline? One could,
of course, create a workspace and merge the baseline into that workspace,
but this requires clients who just want to browse a baseline to have write
access to the server in question.
Anyway, I think that the 07 draft is not clear on this point. Section 9.1
could be changed to clarify this:
In the third sentence of 9.1. , add "non-versionable" as follows:
"A workspace is a non-versionable collection whose members are a set of
related versionable resources, version selectors, and working resources."