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Re: revision number wrap around

From: Erik Huelsmann <ehuels_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2007-09-10 10:01:50 CEST

On 9/9/07, Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@infinito.it> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I didn't find documentation about this, please point me to that in the case
> you know. SVN uses a unique number for a whole repository, i.e., for all the
> projects within it, is there the possibility that the revision number wraps
> around? Is there something that should be done from the repository
> administrator and that can inform the administrator of this incoming problem?

The current maximum limit of the revision number is 2^31. That should
give you a commit each second for the next ... 68 years.

By that time, we probably have increased it to 63 bits.

HTH,

Erik.

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