On 11/6/2006 10:12 PM, Eric wrote:
> At 09:24 PM 11/6/2006, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
> <RS>>>>>Do not think of it as the version number (or more properly:
> revision number) *of a file* or *of a directory* but instead *of the
> repository*. Attach no further meaning to this number other than "the
> number of changes that have been made to the repository." That's all it
> is.<<<<<
>
> Good evening, Ryan.
>
> Yes, I understand that. But, if the current revision of the SRS is 4.3 (as
> recorded in the change log on the back page of the document), and someone
> comes to me and tells me that he needs revision 4.1 and wants to know how
> he can check it out, what do I tell him if the whole repository is at
> revision 17?
Mark told you what to do when "4.1" is referring to a release of the
whole system: tag it, ignore the rev number.
There's also the situation where you have a number of weakly connected
files, each with it's own version number. In that case, simply record
the revision number of the repository (using the svn:keywords attribute,
if you like) rather than making up your own numbering scheme. The
individual files will have revision numbers like 5, 17, 28, etc: it
shouldn't matter to you that some numbers in the sequence are missing.
> This is aside from the issue about if he wants the SRS he'll have to check
> out everything else in that repository directory including stuff he doesn't
> care about.
He can export individual files if he doesn't mind losing the versioning.
He can check out the whole directory, but update individual files to
specific revisions.
Duncan Murdoch
>
> (I suggested that the only real "fix", in that case, would be to put each
> file into its own repository and I thought I was going to be lynched...) :-(
>
>
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