Re: an itch to scratch

On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 10:33:55AM -0600, Karl Fogel wrote:
> Michael Wood <mwood@its.uct.ac.za> writes:
> > Why is this not the last set of changes made to a file? If
> > $Rev$ is the "the revision in which the file last changed"
> > (which happens to be any number of changes behind HEAD) then
> > $Rev$ - 1 must be the revision just before the last change to
> > the file.
>
> $Rev$ is not the revision in which the file last changed. It is the
> revision on which the working copy file is based; could be arbitrarily
> far behind HEAD.

Ahhh, OK :)

> > The contents of the file should not have changed between $Rev$
> > and HEAD, should they?
>
> Yes, they could have.

-- 
Michael Wood <mwood@its.uct.ac.za>
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