Re: Unclear syntax for relative addressing of svn:externals, on RHEL 5, subversion-1.6.12

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/12/2010 4:57 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>>
>> >
>> I understand that, and can understand that the peg revisions demanded
>> a new syntax.
>
> I realize that this is barely related to the topic, but is there any common
> scenario where you wouldn't want to use peg revision syntax?  In every
> situation I can imagine where -r rev path and path_at_rev might differ, the one
> I'd want would be path_at_rev.

When the code has beem moved around. There's a description at
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch07s03.html which helps explain
it.

Mind you, I think if you're doing this kind of drilling back you're
begging or pain.
Received on 2010-07-13 13:33:40 CEST