- From: Christopher Seiwald <seiwald@perforce.com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 17:41:48 -0700
- To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org, www-vers-wg@ics.uci.edu
| From: Yaron Goland <yarong@microsoft.com> | | Sure you do a check out on the document and the system records on the | Server the existence of the check out. Then you do a check in on the | document and the server knows who has the document checked out. Either way How does the server connect your checkin with the original checkout, so that it can clear the checkout state? It must use some information - some token or set of tokens to bridge the two. Clearly the URL is not sufficient: multiple users can be working on the same document. URL+username might be better, but I can easily imagine a case where the same named user (or the same user) is working on a single document from two different places. URL+username+hostname? Maybe. I can think of times, tho, when I myself have been editing the same source file on the same machine in two different places (and fully expecting the SCM system to keep track of it). I don't think we can define what information is sufficient for all version-aware Web servers to be able to join a checkin with its corresponding checkout. At a certain point, you're going to have to concede that it has to be a token of the server's choice. Christopher
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