Re: Is label support in future release?

Tim Hill wrote:
> Stuff like back-port and integration operations. You often end up
> needing to merge stuff where one of the rev numbers is the rev# of a
> "well-known" revision in the repo. The "official" way to track such
> well-known revisions is tags. OK, that's fine.
>
> The problem arises when I come to type the command: I need to enter
> the rev# of the tag into a --revision switch. I can only do this two
> ways: manually (use an svn command to get the rev# from the tag, then
> type it), or via a bunch of shell magic (which isn't portable).
> What's really needed here is an extension to the --revision syntax to
> allow me to say, in effect, "the rev# implied by this URL". This
> would give me a robust and portable way to inject the needed
> information during the merge.

Why do you need to enter the rev# number of the tag? A tag has only one set
of files in it (you never commit changes to a tag), so the tag url is all
you need to identify the revision of any file in the tag.

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Nikki Locke, Trumphurst Ltd.      PC & Unix consultancy & programming
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