Re: English terminology / explanation needed

On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 07:53:28AM -0500, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> >
> > clients/commandline/notify.c:300
> > "Status against revision: %6ld\n"
> > Does this mean "Status in revision" ? "Against" translates funny and
> > doesn't make sense.
>
> This is English shorthand for:
>
> "The status command was performed against revision X."
>
> You only see this when you run 'svn status -u'. The -u switch contacts
> the repository and compares the working copy to HEAD, in order to show
> which files are out-of-date. This message tells people the exact
> revision of HEAD: "I compared your working copy to HEAD, which is
> currently revision X."

Just to clarify: the word "against" means "compared to" or "in
comparison with".

-brian

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