From: Dmitry Ivankov <divanorama@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 14:29:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] Allow reading svn dumps from files via file:// urls.
Message-ID: <loom.20120711T162346-654@post.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <1342013933-14381-3-git-send-email-florian.achleitner.2.6.31@gmail.com>

Florian Achleitner <florian.achleitner.2.6.31 <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> Especially for testing and development it's useful
> to bypass svnrdump and replay the svndump from a file
> without connecting to an svn server.
> 
> Add support for file:// urls in the remote url.
> e.g. svn::file:///path/to/dump
> When the remote helper finds an url starting with
> file:// it tries to open that file instead of invoking svnrdump.
file:// is a bad choice because file:// style repo urls are valid for svn and 
it's for local repos rather than dumpfiles. Maybe something like dumpfile:// 
instead?

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