Re: History in subversion

On Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:23:39 +0000, Les Mikesell wrote:
...
> > Revision numbers can be renumbered one day in the repository, so they cannot
> > be used in the SCM process, am I wrong ?
>
> No, revisions can never be renumbered in an existing repository. It
> is possible to dump the repository and load the history into a
> different one and change the revision numbers in the process, but that
> is a drastic administrative decision that will invalidate all
> checked-out workspaces.

Uh, it would also invalidate any pegged revision used in externals, right?

Andreas

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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800