Re: Subversion wishes / proposed enhacements

On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 11:17:32 -0400
Garrett Rooney <rooneg@electricjellyfish.net> wrote:

> Well, that's not what you said ;-)
>
> You said you wanted something that increases only when the file changes.
> This does increase only when the file changes, it just increases by an
> indeterminate amount each time ;-)
>

Ok, I mean increase by one, that information was lost in my head when I
wrote the previous post :)

> Seriously, using the number of times a file has changed as a reflection
> of anything other than the number of times it has changed is a bad idea.
> A high number of changes doesn't really map to "amount of work", or
> anything meaningful in all cases.
>

Sure, it doesn't map to "amount of work" logically, but intuitively/fuzzyly.
Also, this isn't against the subversion global revision concept, I only
ask for allowing the use of a valid revision information, the number of
changes of a file.

Saludos,

Nahuel Greco.

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Received on Mon Aug 11 17:45:42 2003