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Re: Revision numbers in merge ?

From: Tim Hill <tim_at_realmsys.com>
Date: 2005-04-01 05:14:34 CEST

yes, I was referring to that. If it's an undoc feature at present, then
that's probably why it didn't make sense to me :)

Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:

>
> On Mar 31, 2005, at 7:46 PM, Scott Palmer wrote:
>
>>
>> I think Tim was referring specifically to item #3 from 'svn help
>> merge'. You've covered #1, basically #2 is the same, and part of #3,
>> but #3 clearly shows "[@REV]" in addition to "-r N:M". How would you
>> use the @REV in the context of usage #3?
>>
>
> It's for the new 'peg-rev' syntax in svn 1.1 for tracing renames.
>
> svn merge -rX:Y URL@Z working-copy
>
> This command means: "Jump to coordinates (Z, URL), then trace history
> backwards to find the same object in revisions X and Y -- which may
> have had a different names in those revisions. Then compare the
> old-names of URL in revision X and Y."
>
> Yes, I'm painfully aware that the peg-rev stuff isn't yet in the
> book. :-/
>
>

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