Re: export of invalid revision (issue #3400)

John Peacock wrote:
> Edmund Wong wrote:
>> 1) Assume the user meant that he/she wanted the latest
>> revision but can't be bothered to find it out the
>> hard way. (Newbie question: How does one find out
>> what the latest revision is, aside for doing a
>> 'svn update'?)
>
> FWIW, -rHEAD always points to the latest revision.
>

Thanks.

> I don't think we should support "magically" deciding what the user
> "probably" meant, since they could have meant some completely different
> repo, which actually has 10000+ revisions and were just in the wrong
> directory (think about svn:externals)...

So basically giving an error message would suffice?

Edmund

PS: You guys certainly are lightning fast on the post. I only
just posted that. I wish telecom customer reps were that
fast.

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Received on 2009-04-15 17:35:28 CEST