On 17/11/2007, Ron Wilson <ronw.mrmx@gmail.com> wrote:
> We would like and option to have TSVN show revision numbers in hexadecimal.
>
> This request comes from our management and our "systems engineers".
>
> Here's why: We are using the SVN revision number as the minor part of
> the software version - a common practice. Our customers
> (manufacturers) have tools and equipment that query electronic
> components directly and expect, among other things, the software
> version, reported as 3 unsigned integers in the range 0 to 0xFFFF.
>
> Up until now, the special tools, supplied by our major customers, had
> an option to display numbers in decimal. With the new common platform
> for manufacturing our major customers use, numbers are only displayed
> in hexadecimal.
>
> Unlike the software group, the others in our organization (who insist
> on being able to view our SVN logs with TSVN) find it very
> inconvenient to have to convert the revision numbers between decimal
> and hexadecimal. (For formal documents, we can, and do, convert to hex
> for their convenience, but they want to use TSVN themselves - or force
> us to switch to another VCS they feel will be more friendly to them.)
Advise them to switch to "git". Then they'll have plenty of hex
numbers to play with.
The only downside is that there is no stable and full-featured Win32
client yet (IIRC).
--
Milen A. Radev
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