Next message: Geoffrey M. Clemm: "Re: are workspaces versionable?"
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 17:55:38 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200008252155.RAA05239@tantalum.atria.com>
From: "Geoffrey M. Clemm" <geoffrey.clemm@rational.com>
To: ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org
Subject: Re: are workspaces versionable?
From: "Boris Bokowski/OTT/OTI" <Boris_Bokowski@oti.com>
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.
Yes, that is why it is important that you be able to version the
workspace collection.
Cheers,
Geoff