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Re: question about 'svnversion -c'

From: Dongsheng Song <dongsheng.song_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:57:57 +0800

2008/12/22 Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2008c_at_ryandesign.com>:
> On Dec 22, 2008, at 01:43, Dongsheng Song wrote:
>
>> 2008/12/22 Ryan Schmidt:
>>
>>> On Dec 22, 2008, at 00:03, Dongsheng Song wrote:
>>>
>>>> C:\svnbook\book>svnversion -nc
>>>> 57:3384M
>>>>
>>>> What's '57' means ?
>>>
>>> From "svnversion --help" I see these descriptions:
>>>
>>> -n [--no-newline] : do not output the trailing newline
>>> -c [--committed] : last changed rather than current revisions
>>>
>>> So I think this means that the least-recently-changed committed file in
>>> your
>>> working copy was last changed in revision 57, and the
>>> most-recently-changed
>>> committed file in the working copy was last changed in revision 3384, and
>>> there are also uncommitted changes somewhere in your working copy (that's
>>> the "M").
>>
>> [dongsheng_at_x64-linux:~/var/svn/svnbook/book]% svnversion
>> 3386
>> [dongsheng_at_x64-linux:~/var/svn/svnbook/book]% svnversion -c
>> 57:3384
>>
>> But from the help message:
>> % svnversion -help
>> ...
>> Valid options:
>> -n [--no-newline] : do not output the trailing newline
>> -c [--committed] : last changed rather than current revisions
>> -h [--help] : display this help
>> --version : show program version information
>>
>> -c [--committed] : last changed rather than current revisions
>>
>> So I think the output should be:
>> [dongsheng_at_x64-linux:~/var/svn/svnbook/book]% svnversion -c
>> 3384
>
> Unless you actually changed each and every file in your working copy in
> revision 3384, I don't think that's the output you're going to see.
>
> The output you got (57:3384) seems correct to me, assuming there is a file
> in your working copy that was changed in revision 57 and not after.
>

I think the '-c' output should be a single value, not a range.

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