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Re: svn revision r0 question

From: Blair Zajac <blair_at_orcaware.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:24:19 -0700

Paul,

Subversion revision times are down to the microsecond.

Blair

Paul Charlton wrote:
> Blair,
>
> It's good to know that the "00:00:00" implication is publicly documented ...
> even so, it is still ambiguous if two transactions commit within the same
> second ... is there a clear rule that no more than one TXN can commit during
> the same second?
>
> thanks,
> Paul
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Blair Zajac [mailto:blair_at_orcaware.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 2:42 PM
> To: Paul Charlton
> Cc: 'Greg Hudson'; 'Subversion Developers'
> Subject: Re: svn revision r0 question
>
> "{2007-01-02}" implies a time of "00:00:00" in that day.
>
> Read the box here:
>
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.tour.revs.specifiers.html#svn.tour.re
> vs.dates
>
> Blair
>
> Paul Charlton wrote:
>> Greg,
>>
>> "{2007-01-02}" is inherently a set, with zero or more members. It can
> never
>> deterministically resolve to a single revision number in the case that
> there
>> is more than one transaction commit during a 24 hour period beginning at
>> midnight unless you arbitrarily pick "first commit that day" or "last
> commit
>> that day".
>>
>> best,
>> Paul
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Greg Hudson [mailto:ghudson_at_MIT.EDU]
>> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 1:10 PM
>> To: Paul Charlton
>> Cc: 'Subversion Developers'
>> Subject: RE: svn revision r0 question
>>
>> On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 13:04 -0700, Paul Charlton wrote:
>>> I respectfully disagree that the phrase {2007-01-02} has no meaning. It
>>> defines a set of all revisions matching that date ... there is no
>>> requirement that the initial set be ordered to determine membership in
> the
>>> named subset .... that's why all relationship DBMS have the ability to
>>> create an index on the fly of most any field of a collection of records.
>> You've departed from our API and command-line interface specifications
>> with that meaning. Revision specs must resolve into a single revision
>> number.

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