Dale R. Worley wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 12:11 -0400, Adam Gibson wrote:
>
>>Would the concern with implementing CREATED be that everyone might think
>>that would work for all branching methods and cause confusion?
>
>
> The problem runs deeper than that -- you've described what you want
> CREATED to in a very limited (albeit useful) set of circumstances. But
> you haven't given a specification that explains how CREATED is
> interpreted in *all* possible circumstances, nor an algorithm that shows
> how that could be implmented. To do those things, you have to deal with
> all the dank corners of what might be going on.
>
> For instance, does each file and directory carry a value of CREATED? In
> a WC, which item's CREATED controls how the command is executed? If you
> use multiple stages of branching, how does CREATED help? Etc., etc.
>
> Dale
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My limited understanding of SVN internals and svn lingo will probably
mean my input on this will be rather limited but here goes an attempt to
try and explain at least the basics.
- The CREATED tag name would be something assigned to every file and
directory and would be assigned to represent the revision number that
the file was created by an import, copy, or move.
- Any reference to CREATED by -r or @ would use the revision number that
was stored for the file or directory that was referenced. If the URL is
pointing to a file then the files CREATED revision is referenced or if a
directory is referenced then the directories CREATED revision is used.
I wonder if it would be possible for the server to do a --stop-on-copy
itself any time it gets a CREATED revision name somehow instead of
storing a CREATED attribute for every file.
Too many questions than answers I guess.
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Received on Wed Sep 7 23:40:07 2005