Re: CHANGES: Suggestion

Jostein Chr. Andersen wrote:
>
> The revision number have been my frend for a long time and is (the way I
> see it) a very valuable timesaver for tracking, talking, co, export and
> much other stuff I can't remember or think of right now.
> I like the revision number, and my impression is that revision numbers
> are very importans for many users :-)

I'm not talking about revision numbers in general of course. I'm
talking about how to identify a release.

Using a revision number by itself is useless, because you need a path
as well. However, if the path is a tag, it is enough to identify
release by the path, i.e. the revision number is redundant. Specifying
a revision number for the trunk is quite useless, because the release
can contain stuff that is not in any trunk revision, or pieces merged
from a set of trunk revisions.

It is much more useful to use "svn log" on the tag to find out how a
release was pieced together.

/Tobias

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Received on Thu Nov 27 23:34:58 2003