Andy Peters writes:
> On Nov 20, 2006, at 11:17 AM, Thomas Wicklund wrote:
> > I'm not sure this is the exact case the original poster wanted, but I
> > would argue that the point of tagging and branching is that you always
> > work with tag / branch names, never with revision numbers.
> > Unfortunately the SVN book seems to assume that users routinely track
> > revision numbers when checking out and committing. Repository
> > revision numbers change too often for this to be practical.
>
> I agree. I think the emphasis on revision numbers is in the book
> because revision numbers are used when merging. Other than that, I
> don't pay any attention to revision numbers at all.
You shouldn't need revision numbers when merging either. Remembering
which revision a branch is based on is the biggest complaint I've
heard from people moving to Subversion. Unfortunately, You really
need to enforce additional structure on top of Subversion or some good
discipline to manage branches so that revision numbers aren't needed.
Thomas Wicklund
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Received on Mon Nov 20 22:31:17 2006