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Re: new substitution keyword for global repository revision

From: Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de>
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:00:00 +0100

On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 04:44:24PM +0100, Christian Schoenebeck wrote:
> On Thursday 24 December 2009 15:59:38 Stefan Sperling wrote:
> > What if I do an update which should not update the working copy
> > root, such as "svn update somefile"?
>
> Then you have a mixed revision working copy. To address this case a bit
> better, instead of introducing one new keyword like "GlobalRevision", one
> could introduce two new keywords instead like "GlobalRevisionMin" and
> "GlobalRevisionMax". So the user can decide whether he wants the respective
> places to be substituted by the most biggest or most smallest revision number
> in his working copy.
>
> I would however substitute all files mentioned in the suggested global
> property, no matter which part of the working copy is being updated. So even
> if just one unrelated file gets "svn update"ed, all files in the whole working
> copy would be substituted.
>

What problem do you really want to solve with this?
Why is svnversion not good enough for your problem?

Stefan
Received on 2009-12-24 17:00:43 CET

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