Re: Special revision ids: HEAD, BASE, etc. ... but Head, head, CHANGED, FIRST?

Sander Striker wrote:
>>From: Julian Foad
...
>>subversion/libsvn_subr/opt.c (revision_from_word) implements the following familiar words:
>>
>> HEAD
>> BASE
>> COMMITTED
>> PREV
>>
>>but also these:
...
>> FIRST: a synonym for 0 (number zero)
>>
>>Do we really need that? I can imagine a meaning of "FIRST" that would be more useful: "The first revision in which the
>>item existed."
>
> Hmmm, what does usage of FIRST do with the various commands nowadays?
> What is the expected output? Is that intuitive?

It is translated into "0" (type "number") - not its own special type. So it does exactly what it would have done if you had type "0" instead. It's not what I would call "intuitive". For example:

~/src/subversion> svn log -rFIRST HACKING
svn: HTTP Path Not Found
svn: REPORT request failed on '/repos/svn/!svn/bc/0/trunk/HACKING'
svn: '/repos/svn/!svn/bc/0/trunk/HACKING' path not found

- Julian

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Received on Sun Sep 21 14:38:28 2003