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Ivan "Rambius" Ivanov updated IVY-643:
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David, the Subversion server or more specifically mod_dav_svn implements a
superset of the WebDAV specification and it is called Delta V and is available
as an RFC draft. Delta V deals mainly with versioning as this topic was
exlcuded from the original WebDAV protocol because of its complexity. There are
fully complaint Delta V servers and clients and Subversion does not fully
comply as well.
Anyway, Subversion support all WebDAV requests plus some of the Delta V ones.
You can technically send a dav PUT request to a Subverion/mod_dav_svn, but it
will reject it. The reason is that Delta V says that before you PUT a file, you
have to do a CHECKOUT request on it. This is roughly how it works.
Anyway, Subversion can be configured to work as a WebDAV server, thus accepting
generic WebDAV requests. The configuration is described in Appendix C "WebDAV
and Autoversioning" [1], section "Autoversioning", [2] in the Subversion book.
Use the directive
SVNAutoversioning on
in your httpd.conf to turn autoversioning on. Now, if you send for example a
PUT request for a file, it will do all the Delta V hassle to CHECKOUT the file,
PUT it and CHECKIN. Subversion also assign auto-generated comments to such
files.
Thus an ordinary webdav client can use the SVN repository.
[1] http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn.webdav.html
[2] http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn.webdav.autoversioning.html
> Ship ivy with commons-vfs-sandbox.jar, because it provides the webdav support
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> Key: IVY-643
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY-643
> Project: Ivy
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Core
> Affects Versions: 2.0.0-alpha-2
> Reporter: Ivan "Rambius" Ivanov
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> The commons-vsf project has been split into commons-vfs.jar and
> commons-vfs-sandbox.jar. The webdav support is provided by
> commons-vfs-sandbox.jar, see http://commons.apache.org/vfs/index.html : "Due
> to some technical reasons we had to move the webdav and jcifs (smb)
> filesystem to the sandbox. So if you need one of these filesystems you have
> to build VFS manually."
> Ivy does not come with commons-vfs-sandbox.jar and I believe it should in
> order to prevent its users from the hassle of building commons-vfs
> themselves. I myself built it from commons-vfs 1.0 source.
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