Re: revision numbering within branches

The revision numbers apply to the entire repository regardless of the
path (and branches/tags are just paths after all)

A revision is nothing much more than a change at a given point in time.

The revision at which a tag or branch was created can be found by
retrieving the log for the tag or branch folder and requesting that
the log stop-on-copy

svn log --quiet --stop-on-copy
svn://someserver/somerepo/some/path/branches/MyBranch

or something like that...

--
Talden
On 7/19/07, Gavin McLeod <gavin.macleod@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've tried searching the mailing list in case this has cropped up before,
> but couldn't find anything
> so hope I'm not re-asking the same thing again!
>
> We have a fairly standard svn setup, trunk being main development stream,
> and we have branches
> taken at live releases.  Occasionally we have to make a patch to a branch,
> but I notice the branch
> doesn't maintain its own revision numbering separate from the trunk - I
> assume this is normal svn
> behaviour?
>
> e.g., We make a branch, called release-1.0, at say svnversion 1000.  We then
> continue developing in
> the trunk to say svnversion 1200, then we need to make a patch to live.  So
> we check out the branch,
> make the patch and commit.  The svnversion of the whole project (branch and
> trunk) now becomes 1201.
>
> This confused me somewhat, as I was expecting the branch to maintain its own
> revision, as technically
> it is now a separate work stream - ie I would have expected the branch
> revision to become 1001, and the
>  trunk to stay at 1200, as we have only committed an update to the branch.
>
> Is this normal for svn to maintain a single revision number that applies
> across the trunk and all branches?
> Is it possible to get svn to maintain separate revision numbering in
> branches? or do people regard this
> as a bad idea?
>
>
> many thanks
> Gavin
>
>
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