On 10/13/06, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 11:43 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote:
>
> > In other file-oriented systems, one checks out a previous snapshot of a
> > part of the database using a timestamp. In Subversion, one grabs that
> same
> > snapshot by revision number. I find the revision number more accurate
> and
> > reliable.
>
> What does that mean in the context of putting unrelated projects
> under the same repository? If you combine them, the repository
> version number is going to change on projects where no change
> took place. It probably doesn't really matter, since you normally
> either check out the HEAD, not caring about the version number or
> you create a tag if a specific version matters.
Before we switched from VSS to svn, I too was a little worried about this
"constantly changing" revision number. But in practice, it just isn't an
issue. We have two repos: one for source code and one for binary files,
typically use-case documents and such. We use specific revision numbers to
refer to bug fixes, features, or patches in the source code and no one
worries about contiguous revision numbers.
Received on Sat Oct 14 15:06:11 2006