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Re: Getting HEAD revision number from a URL

From: David Rees <drees_at_greenhydrant.com>
Date: 2004-10-26 10:42:36 CEST

Rob Hills wrote, On 10/25/2004 10:43 PM:
>>
>> It sounds like you're missing a fundamental SVN concept. The
>> repository has a single, global revision number. There's no such
>> thing as "the latest revnum of a path".
>
> I understand this, but for any subtree within the repository, the
> last revision to any file within that subtree won't always be the
> same as the last revision to the head.
>
> This becomes important if you have a tree containing a number of
> different projects as we do, something like:
>
> /projects/project1 /projects/project2
>
> etc. The last revision for project1 won't necessarily be the last
> revision for project2 or for the head.

Are you sure? Think about it. :-)

The last revision for /projects is the same as the last revision for
/projects/project1 which is also the last revision for /projects/project2.

-Dave

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