Re: Question: Rev 914

To verify that it is 909, I looked at:

    http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/tags/0.8.0/Makefile.in

That file was changed in rev 910, and the tag area does not contain the
change. Thus, it is a good guess that it was copied from 909 (or,
technically, earlier)

Cheers,
-g

On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 08:53:38PM -0600, David Summers wrote:
>
> 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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