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Re: killer feature -- HEAD+1

From: David Brodbeck <brodbd_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:42:02 -0700

Pablo,

I apologize, my message was a lame attempt at humor. I didn't think through the fact that it might not translate, given the language barriers involved on this list.

On Apr 20, 2010, at 3:29 PM, Pablo Beltran wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> I think this has not sense, because HEAD is the last revision. So, HEAD+1 doesn't exist. If it exists then it must be HEAD again.
>
> But maybe you ask about the forward history from a N+1 revision. I asked about it in another forum and I get this answer (fs-successor-ids feature):
>
> http://subversion.wandisco.com/forums/13-things-id-like-to-see-in-subversion/265-forwading-history-support.html#266
>
> Though I've developed it, but in Java.
>
> Pablo.
>
> 2010/4/20 David Brodbeck <brodbd_at_u.washington.edu>
>
> On Apr 20, 2010, at 3:44 AM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
>
> > kost BebiX wrote on Tue, 20 Apr 2010 at 14:38 +0400:
> >> Hi! I would really like to see the ability for svn to do things like
> >>
> >> svn log -r HEAD:HEAD-1 to see changes. Right now I need to view revision
> >> numbers first to do thing like this. What do you think about that?)
> >>
> >
> > svn log -r HEAD:1 --limit=2
>
> I'm more interested in the feature suggested by the +1 in the subject line -- the ability to get *future* revisions that haven't been committed yet. Just think, you could start a new project, then check out HEAD+8972 and get finished, debugged code! ;)
>
> --
>
> David Brodbeck
> System Administrator, Linguistics
> University of Washington
>
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David Brodbeck
System Administrator, Linguistics
University of Washington
Received on 2010-04-21 00:43:16 CEST

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