Re: Can someone explain this?

On Feb 1, 2005, at 10:32 PM, Steve Cohen wrote:
>>
> Okay, Travis and Ben, let me see if I understand this "Mixed Revision"
> business after having read the relevant manual portion. This folder
> was at revision 2. When I added C2.java to the repository, thereby
> committing rev 16, this only applied to the new files, not to the
> directory itself. Therefore, it was necessary to do an svn update,
> which did bring the whole directory up to revision 16. Do I have that
> right?
>

Correct. When you commit things, only the *committed* things get the
newly committed revision. Ergo, if you just keep on running 'svn
commit' forever, and never running 'svn up', your working copy
essentially has every revision represented in it!

To see that, run 'svn status -v'.

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Received on Wed Feb 2 05:59:34 2005