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

From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 07:28:36 -0500

Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> 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.

Yes I understand the situation where you would have to use path_at_rev to get
something at all (because history doesn't lead there). What I don't understand
is when you would ever be wrong if you used that all the time instead of -r rev.
       Which leads to the related question as to why that syntax isn't the
default for commands. Is it less efficient than following history backwards?

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell_at_gmail.com
Received on 2010-07-13 14:29:20 CEST

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