Re: revision numbers (was: Re: Single repository, multiple projects?)

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On Sunday 03 February 2002 15:22, Greg Stein wrote:
> And since we only care about equality, that means it "should be" perfectly
> possible to replace the numbers with arbitrary strings.
>
> Not sure what benefit that has :-), but certainly an interesting concept.

Well, what do you get from using integers, and why would you bother using
anything else?

With integers you get ordering, but that's only interesting if you use
it; I don't know of any SVN commands that do version (should we say
primary ID?) comparison except, as you say, for equality. Also, it is easy
to increment integers and thereby generate unique IDs.

If you don't use integers, but (say) hex, or even the entire alphabet, you
could still get ordering and easy increments, and you'd reduce the rate of
increase in the number of digits.

More interesting would be if you could pass SVN the version string you wanted
it to use for a commit; it would be a sort of even cheaper tag:

   svn ci -v 1.2.6

would use 1.2.6 as the version for that particular commit. No need to do a
tag, although you'd still need to do branches the old way. Or you could use
date strings, or other tag-like strings ("alpha-3").

This is marginally less useful when you have one ID for the entire database,
because you'll increase the chances of encountering an ID conflict. On the
other hand, because SVN commits are atomic, a version conflict wouldn't be a
dangerous thing.

Yes, Greg, very interesting.

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