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Re: export of invalid revision (issue #3400)

From: John Peacock <john.peacock_at_havurah-software.org>
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:22:50 -0400

Edmund Wong wrote:
> 1) Assume the user meant that he/she wanted the latest
> revision but can't be bothered to find it out the
> hard way. (Newbie question: How does one find out
> what the latest revision is, aside for doing a
> 'svn update'?)

FWIW, -rHEAD always points to the latest revision.

I don't think we should support "magically" deciding what the user
"probably" meant, since they could have meant some completely different
repo, which actually has 10000+ revisions and were just in the wrong
directory (think about svn:externals)...

John

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