[Registry-dev] Resource delete and version handling

[Deepal Jayasinghe]

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>
> Let's suppose we have a resource
>
> /foo/r1 [version 1]
>
> We delete that
> I'm assuming that a deletion is simply a new version with some kind of
> a marker saying this resource is deleted.
> So we get
>
> /foo/r1 (deleted) [version 2]
>
> Now I add
> /foo/r1
>
> So this becomes version 3.
>
> By the way this is exactly what happens with the Apache wiki site
> (MoinMoin).
>
> I think this is a good approach and will certainly be understandable
> to users. I know SVN does this differently, but in this case I prefer
> this model.
If we do so we can save most of our time and can utilize that time for
something else. In the meantime we can do what exactly what SVN does
once we start to use SVNKit.

Thanks
Deepal