Paul Koning wrote:
>>>>>> "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).
A while back, there'd been a discussion about this; I'd proposed TAIL
(http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2005-11/1320.shtml). I don't think it
ever went anywhere beyond that, because I didn't care enough to raise it
on the dev list (as Scott Palmer suggested)...
I think it'd be a good idea, but it's not something I'm dying to have.
-David
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Received on Tue Jan 31 17:18:37 2006