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Re: Help with Revision Numbers

From: Roberto Nucera <nucera_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2005-03-30 21:26:34 CEST

Toby, Sean

Thanks!!

My final question...
The document speaks of trees...? "Revision numbers apply to entire trees"

What is a tree? For example is the entire repository the tree (repo =
tree) or can there be somehow independent trees inside a repository.

Toby, you say "trunk" and "branches" don't really fit our model of
workflow, so we don't even use them.

Can you comment a bit on that?

Thanks again,

roberto

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 23:00:30 -0500, Toby Johnson <toby@etjohnson.us> wrote:
> Roberto Nucera wrote:
>
> >And this is true, I did an svn update, but what could have caused this
> >branch to be at 44,
> >since all it's local revisions are less than 44?
> >
> >For you information, this is a "branch" not the trunk. Could it be
> >that the trunk is at 44? and so this branch also is at 44? Any other
> >reason as to why this could happen?
> >
> >
> Yes, that's exactly the case. There is only one current/most recent/HEAD
> revision number for the *entire repository*. If the repository is at
> revision n, and you commit changes to just one file, then *all files*
> are now at revision n+1, whether they are in the trunk, a branch, a tag,
> etc. Most of those files didn't change from revision n to n+1, but their
> revision number increased nonetheless.
>
> For what it's worth, Subversion places *no relevance whatsoever* on
> trunk vs. branches vs. labels. They're all just directories in the
> repository.. it's the people who use those different locations that
> attach the meaning to them. Once you wrap your head around that concept
> it's much easier to see how changes in the trunk can affect the revision
> numbers of branches. (In fact, at my company, "trunk" and "branches"
> don't really fit our model of workflow, so we don't even use them.)
>
> As Sean suggested, you should read up on the relevant sections on "SVN
> for CVS users" as well as the part explaining what revision numbers mean.
>
>

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