[svn.haxx.se] · SVN Dev · SVN Users · SVN Org · TSVN Dev · TSVN Users · Subclipse Dev · Subclipse Users · this month's index

Re: Support CVS-like consecutive-numbered file revs?

From: Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2006Q1_at_ryandesign.com>
Date: 2006-03-21 10:50:56 CET

On Mar 21, 2006, at 05:18, Matt England wrote:

> I have a project that's looking to potentially implement a "digital
> assets" tracking system with Subversion--or something similar--as
> it's underlying database.
>
> One of the useful requirements: have a "consecutively-incrementing"
> rev-numbering system on a per file basis. This doesn't happen in
> Subversion because of the per-repo rev-uptick
> control...however...I'm wondering if Subversion might support such
> an "additional," per-file attribute to track only the file revs in
> addition to the repo revs...so that I can get a "1, 2, 3, 4..."
> numbered file-rev set? (yes, that's a terrible run-on
> sentence...but I'm a little lean on time.)
>
> If not, and if this requirements remains as important as we suspect
> for the "per-file digital asset" system, I suspect that we may use
> CVS (for I understand CVS does per-file, incremental number revs)
> or build a per-file incremental "smarts" on top of Subversion in a
> php-based gizmo.

Subversion has no such mechanism built in. I make some possibly
relevant observations here:

http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2006-02/0017.shtml

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@subversion.tigris.org
For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@subversion.tigris.org
Received on Tue Mar 21 10:52:49 2006

This is an archived mail posted to the Subversion Users mailing list.

This site is subject to the Apache Privacy Policy and the Apache Public Forum Archive Policy.