Re: Question: Rev 914

OK, Thanks for the explanations, that really helps a lot. No, I don't
really care at this point. Just trying to learn and apply the SVN model
of doing things. I guess the only time I would really care is if I had to
know a particular revision number for some reason (the tag sort of
takes care of that) but I can't think of any good reasons at the moment.

It was just a bit confusing for a newbie to see the message "copy of 909"
and have the rev happen at 914 and the working copy said "latest version".

Congrats, you have your first tag!

   Thanks,
   - David

On 16 Jan 2002, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:

> Date: 16 Jan 2002 20:40:18 -0600
> From: Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net>
> To: David Summers <david@summersoft.fay.ar.us>
> Cc: "dev@subversion.tigris.org" <dev@subversion.tigris.org>
> Subject: Re: Question: Rev 914
>
> David Summers <david@summersoft.fay.ar.us> writes:
>
> > Ah yes, grasshopper. Dig deeper! :-)
> >
> > So how can I "ask the file system"? Is that the svnadmin command? If so,
> > can that be done remotely through the network using svn client?
> >
> > Nit: The actual tag occurred as rev 914. Was that a copy of 909 or is the
> > actual copy = rev 914 (files as of 913)?
> >
> > Inquring Minds want to know!
>
> When the repository was at revision 913, Mike Pilato and I sat at his
> desk and issued this command (not in a working copy, either!):
>
> svn cp -r 909 http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk \
> http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/tags/0.8.0
>
> Therefore, I'm certain that the 0.8.0 directory is a copy of /trunk in
> r909.
>
> But, now, grasshopper, I throw a question back at you: why do you
> care to know what /tags/0.8.0 is a copy of? Is it not enough that it
> merely exists?
>
> I mean, when you tag 300 RCS files with CVS, do you care to examine
> the exact list of per-file revisions that the tag represents?
> Similarly, do you care to see the exact list of node-ids that live
> beneath /tags/0.8.0?
>
> [ One way of exploring: run 'svnadmin shell repo'. You can
> interactively explore the node-ids that way. Or if you want to know
> how /trunk differs from /tags/0.8.0, the 'svn diff' command should
> someday be able to do this. Finally, the 'svnlook' binary will
> someday describe copies as they occur, rather than mailing us 8 meg
> commit mails. ]
>
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