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Re: Feature request: Keyword $Rev$ with a twist

From: Mats Nilsson <mats.nilsson_at_xware.se>
Date: 2002-08-09 09:17:55 CEST

At 23:41 2002-08-08, Josef Wolf wrote:
>On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 02:07:43PM +0200, Mats Nilsson wrote:
>
> > * In most other circumstances using svn there is always a choice between
> > tagging and refering to the tag, or use the URL and rev. In this case
> > however, the URL+rev is not available.
>
>Hmm, did not get this one. Could you please increase verbosity?

Commands like 'svn co', 'svn up', 'svn switch', as well as the modules
subsystem operate on URL:s, and if desired you can supply a working
revision if you don't mean HEAD.

Alternatively, they can also refer to a tag, obviously without the need to
specify revision.

So in all these cases, svn has two equally promoted ways of dealing with
the concept of specifying a point in space and time: either you make a tag
or you remember the URL and working revision tuple.

But, when it comes to marking the files of a checked out ws, svn is lacking
a $WorkingRev$ keyword. The consequence is that svn will not be able to
record both the URL and working revision in the files [without external
help]. Thus it would IMHO only fully support one model, the one where you'd
make a tag and always imply HEAD.

Mats

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