Dotted revisions numbers and range of revisions

Martin Pool mbp at canonical.com
Fri Nov 3 04:15:10 GMT 2006


On  2 Nov 2006, John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
> SVN has the advantage that it *only* has revision numbers. So you don't
> have to worry about revision ids. And other references like 'yesterday'
> are obvious. I'm curious how it does dates. It seems to use {2006-01-01}
> as the date distinguisher. They also have HEAD, BASE, COMMITTED, PREV,
> though I can't tell the difference between BASE & COMMITTED, unless you
> can have a base rev which isn't a commit.

If I recall correctly, COMMITTED is the last revision which touched the
object in question (if non is specified, your current directory) before
the base of the checkout.  It might be useful in e.g. 'svn log -r
COMMITTED'.

-- 
Martin




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