> -----Original Message-----
> From: Giulio Troccoli [mailto:Giulio.Troccoli_at_uk.linedata.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 4:44 AM
> To: Reedick, Andrew; users_at_subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: RE: Efficient way to get the previous revision number
>
> Sorry I was not very clear.
>
> When I say that --limit doesn't work, I meant because I used it as in
>
> svn log [dir1 URL] --limit 1
>
> without specifying the revision range. I didn't think about using peg
> revisions. I haven't tried it yet, but since revision 103 changed
> nothing in dir1, wouldn't [dir1 URL]@103 throw up an error? After all
> if
> I do
>
> svn log -r 103
>
> I simply get a line of hyphens.
>
> My concern was about the use of a huge revision range, so effectively
> getting the log for revision that I won't need. I guess using the
> --limit option with a revision range will not do anything about the
> efficiency. Instead the work done at the moment by head and tail is
> done
> by Subversion on the server (because of --limit), which make things
> simpler but maybe not more efficient.
>
I appreciate efficiency as much as the next person, but you might be
making mountains out of molehills. The client api takes a limit
parameter <http://svn.collab.net/svn-doxygen/group__Log.html> which
tends to imply that efficiency in this regard was considered. I would
still want a developer to state just how efficient --limit is.
Given how much you're obsessing over the efficient usage of 'svn log'
with tail/limit, have you taken the time to see what the server impacts
of large 'svn log -r X:Y' and 'svn log --limit N -r X:Y' are? Metrics
would be helpful in determining the best course to take.
Another idea would be to 'svn info URL_at_PEG' and check the 'Last Changed
Rev:'.
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