Alexander Sabourenkov wrote:
> Matthias Wächter wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>>
>> Since the absolute value of the revision number is not important, why
>> not
>> specify an offset value for the first repository entry at all? For
>> example, one wants to start his work at r0, another one is fancy
>> starting
>> at r1000, another one has to start at r2345 because he dumped everything
>> up to r2344 and wants to retain numbering.
>>
>> I think adding dummy entries cannot be a solution.
>
>
> It's not a solution per se, it can be more of a requirement.
> If we have a repository, and a nubmer of working copies checked-out of
> it,
> replacing unwanted data with empty revisions is required in order not
> to force
> everybody to check out fresh wc and re-learn what was done when.
Won't they have to anyways? You potentially removed the revision they
were on, or files they have and which their wc says are in revision control.
-David Waite
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Received on Thu Mar 6 18:19:23 2003