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RE: Command to get the "repository" version

From: Bob Archer <bob.archer_at_amsi.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:18:02 -0500

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Pinkerton [mailto:pcpinkerton_at_gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 6:03 PM
> To: users_at_tortoisesvn.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: Command to get the "repository" version
>
> I change to revision as when I used version it was seemingly not
> understood, but clearly it was my original intention.
>
> When I tried to post to svn users I got this message
>
> "We are sorry, but email posting to this discussion is not allowed."
>
> SO I email the tortoisesvn users thinking, but obviously not enough that
> some one there would understand the question.
>
> Seems the format file has some possibility of having the answer I needed,
> so no need for you to stress you mind further, it was my error as I forgot
> svn is now on apache. my bad. no worries some folks in these groups like
> to harp on the little things rather really help much, I try to avoid them
> but alas it is not often possible.
>
> thank you for your participation anyway ;-)
>
>
>
> David Huang wrote:
> > On Feb 15, 2010, at 3:57 PM, Phil Pinkerton wrote:
> >
> >
> >> I enjoy how over complicated this has become.
> >>
> >
> > Things get complicated when there's confusion about terminology,
> especially when the question isn't a very common one. You first said you
> wanted to "determine the version of a repository", which in hindsight, is
> probably the right question, although a rather unusual one (especially for
> the TortoiseSVN mailing list). You later said you wanted to "determine
> which revision of subversion his repository was created with", which
> confused me because you started asking about revisions.
> >
> > In any case, if this is all about repositories, and not about working
> copies, it seems to me that the Subversion mailing list would be a better
> place to ask, not the TortoiseSVN mailing list. This seems to be a rather
> unusual question--you mention merging not working, but I don't know how
> that would be related to the version of SVN that the repo was created
> with. If the repo hasn't been upgraded, some new features may not be
> available, but merging should work as well as it did in older versions--
> nothing should actually break. I suspect the "format" file in the repo
> root and/or "format" in the db subdir would give you the info you need,
> but that's getting into internal details that I don't know about.
> >
> > Maybe if you just described the exact problem you're having, we could be
> of more help? Or if you're absolutely convinced that knowing the repo's
> version will solve all of your problems, try asking
> users_at_subversion.apache.org
> >
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