I think he's referring to svndumpfilter.
Russ
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Andy Levy" <andy.levy@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 07:09:24
To:"Tom Hodder" <Tom.Hodder@emap.com>
Cc:users@subversion.tigris.org
Subject: Re: using revision numbers in external system
On 10/24/06, Tom Hodder <Tom.Hodder@emap.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I would like to be able to rollback to a specific revision using an external
> system. So my thinking is to store the revision number in a table, and if I
> need to go back I can call "svn export -r $rs['revisionNumber']
> file:///myrepos/projectA"
>
> However I can see that there are commands that cause renumbering of
> revisions, however it would seem to me that as long as I don't delete
> earlier revisions in the live repository, that they would not get
> renumbered.
> Is this the case? and to what degree can I rely on revision numbers on
> external systems.
The only thing that can go back in time and renumber old revisions
(that I'm aware of) is if you manually remove revisions from the
repository. This is a non-trivial, rather difficult maneuver, and
it's strongly discouraged that one even do it.
What other commands do you think you have found that can renumber revisions?
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