Eric <spamsink@scoot.netis.com> wrote on 11/06/2006 10:12:56 PM:
> At 09:24 PM 11/6/2006, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
> <RS>>>>>Do not think of it as the version number (or more properly:
> revision number) *of a file* or *of a directory* but instead *of the
> repository*. Attach no further meaning to this number other than "the
> number of changes that have been made to the repository." That's all it
> is.<<<<<
>
> Good evening, Ryan.
>
> Yes, I understand that. But, if the current revision of the SRS is 4.3
(as
> recorded in the change log on the back page of the document), and
someone
> comes to me and tells me that he needs revision 4.1 and wants to know
how
> he can check it out, what do I tell him if the whole repository is at
> revision 17?
He would checkout or switch to the 4.1 release tag which would have a URL
something like this:
url://host/repos/project/tags/4.1
He would not need to know a revision.
> This is aside from the issue about if he wants the SRS he'll have to
check
> out everything else in that repository directory including stuff he
doesn't
> care about.
>
> (I suggested that the only real "fix", in that case, would be to put
each
> file into its own repository and I thought I was going to be lynched...)
:-(
The repository is a file system. You just need to organize the filesystem
in such a manner that intelligent subsets can be grabbed. Just think of
if you were storing your files in folders on a network share and you
wanted to organize it so that someone could grab a folder at various
levels of the share and that would get them what they need.
Mark
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Received on Tue Nov 7 17:22:43 2006