>>>>> "Martin" == Martin J Stumpf <mjs@jhu.edu> writes:
Martin> Paul Koning wrote:
>> Agreed. HEAD is useful, and I think I may have used PREV once
>> (though certainly not more than once).
>>
>> I've gone out of my way to teach my colleagues "do NOT try to
>> assign any meaning to Subversion revision numbers, because you'll
>> just get confused". I would think that attempts to do arithmetic
>> on revision numbers is "trying to assign meaning" to them. So I
>> would actually think this is a bad idea, rather than just an
>> uninteresting idea.
Martin> I don't even understand when COMMITTED AND PREV would be
Martin> used. Could you give an example where they would be helpful
Martin> or relevant?
Not really, that's why said that I *may* have used PREV once, but not
more than once.
The only symbolic name I can think of that would be useful but doesn't
currently exist might be called "ROOT" or "ORIGIN" -- the source
revision of a branch or tag. That would be very handy with merging.
Another symbolic name that would become useful when merge tracking
becomes real would be the last rev merged (i.e., the start rev of a
subsequent merge).
paul
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