Bert Huijben wrote on Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 21:28:10 +0100: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Daniel Shahaf [mailto:d...@daniel.shahaf.name] > > Sent: vrijdag 1 februari 2013 19:11 > > To: dev@subversion.apache.org > > Subject: Coniguring 301/302 redirects to track an fspath rename > > > > Does anyone have an example of how to configure a server to issue > > 301/302 redirects for an fspath that had been renamed? > > > > For example we have > > > > <Location /repos/asf> > > SVNPath ... > > </Location> > > > > And we'd like to do: > > > > # The project was renamed > > Redirect /repos/asf/openejb https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomee > > > > but we're hitting various problems: > > > > - The redirect kicks in for historical revisions (prior to the 'svn mv > > ^/openejb ^/tomee' in r1432805) too, such as: > > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/openejb?p=1400000 > > > > - A similar configuration failed to kick in during update/checkout of > > working copy checked out from (a pre-rename revision of) ^/openejb: > > the initial request got matched and redirected, but a subsequent > > request to /repos/asf/!svn/.../openejb failed to match. > > > > Ideally we'd like to issue a 301 redirect for requests to /openejb that > > concern r1432805 or later, but leave requests concerning r1432804 or > > earlier untouched. > > > > (or maybe what we *really* want is a repos-side symlink... but we're > > running 1.7, not 1.9, and we'll appreciate solutions that work within > > that limitation :)) > > We currently only support redirects above the repository level. > > Redirections inside would be a completely different feature. >
OK... :( > Why not just leave a top level folder with some readme? > Every time a podling graduates from the incubator, we do a rename: svn mv ^/incubator/flex ^/flex If we can return 301 whenever somebody does 'svn up' in a wc of ^/incubator/flex, we'll save many users (2-4 projects every month) having to learn about 'svn relocate'. > I think you should be able to redirect the normal webbrowser GETs though, as > I don't think we use those urls from our ra layers. (Or did we start using > them for HEAD requests in HTTPv2?) > 'svn ls $URL@peg' was affected by the redirects I had. > Bert > Thanks, Daniel
