Re: revision numbers, and a single repo versus multiple repos?

On Dec 19, 2004, at 9:59 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> thoughts on this? what's the standard practise in situations like
> this? should i care if a repo's revision number changes frequently
> even though only a small part of the repo is actually being modified?
>
>

The global revision number is irrelevant; you should not care about
it, nor let it influence your decision to have one repository vs. many
repositories. Here's the FAQ about that:

    http://subversion.tigris.org/project_faq.html#globalrev

This part of the book talks about deciding between one vs. many
repositories:

    http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch05s04.html#svn-ch-5-sect-6.1

And this part of the book discusses the svn:externals feature, which is
vaguely similar to CVS 'modules':

    http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch07s03.html

HTH.

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Received on Sun Dec 19 19:39:39 2004