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From: "Vasta, John" <jvasta@rational.com>
To: "Clemm, Geoff" <gclemm@rational.com>, ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 18:02:12 -0400
Subject: RE: "2xx: Partial Merge" ?
The server cannot know what to add to the ignored-set for an unmerged
directory, because it does not yet know the members of the directory. The
directory itself would be added to the update-set, if I am interpreting the
postconditions correctly.
But I guess a client could look at all members of the update-set, and if any
of them are collections which did not get automatically merged, merge them
and reinvoke MERGE on them. I don't see how the ignored-set is relevant in
this case.
John
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geoffrey M. Clemm [mailto:geoffrey.clemm@Rational.Com]
> Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 5:02 PM
> To: ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org
> Subject: Re: "2xx: Partial Merge" ?
>
>
>
> But this situation is handled by the "ignored-set" element,
> isn't it? In
> particular, a client would know to re-invoke the merge if there are
> some "ignored" versions, and if there are any collections that require
> merging (in case the collection merge made one of the "ignored"
> versions visible).
>
> Cheers,
> Geoff
>
> From: "Vasta, John" <jvasta@rational.com>
> Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 16:30:07 -0400
>
> For a recursive merge over versioned collections, the
> server may not be able
> to recurse into a collection which it cannot merge
> automatically (because it
> cannot know the members of the collection until after it
> is merged). So a
> client must be prepared to repeatedly invoke the MERGE
> method, and perform
> merges on at least collections, until it no longer gets a
> Partial Merge
> response.
>
> At least that's what I was hoping it was for!
>
> John
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Geoffrey M. Clemm [mailto:geoffrey.clemm@Rational.Com]
> > Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 4:21 PM
> > To: ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org
> > Subject: "2xx: Partial Merge" ?
> >
> >
> >
> > I have a "2xx: Partial Merge" response status for MERGE in
> > the 7.0 draft.
> > I'm not sure what this was for, so I'll delete it unless someone
> > remembers what it was supposed to mean.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Geoff
> >
>