Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 13:54, Caleb Tennis wrote:
>> On Thursday 09 September 2004 01:53 pm, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>>> The point here is that if we implemented $GlobalRev$, then every update
>>> and commit would have to walk the *entire* working copy and scan for
>>> properties. That's really time-consuming. It would be a massive
>>> slowdown.
>>
>> Okay, I'll buy it. :)
>>
>> My apologies for not catching this in the FAQ before mailing, too.
>
> The FAQ could be clearer. I should copy that explanation into it. :-/
And note that that's not the only reason.
If you substitute the revision into a version.c file or equivalent, then
create a mixed revision WC by doing some operations in a subtree, then that
keyword expansion is lying about what code is really being built. Which is
why we have svnversion instead.
Max.
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Received on Thu Sep 9 21:21:05 2004