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Re: Tag, branch and revision number

From: Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:27:08 -0500

On Jan 22, 2008 8:41 PM, hce <webmail.hce_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I come from CVS background, I used to use CVS to make tags, to create
> a branch and to use $Revision:$ to get each source file revision
> number. Is it the same rules apply to svn?

No. In Subversion, the whole repository has a revision number
(basically, a timestamp). Every commit increments the global revision
number. Individual files do not get their own version numbers.

The SVN manual has a section just for CVS converts.
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn.forcvs.html

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