[PATCH] clarification about mixed revisions
Michael W Thelen
mike at pietdepsi.com
Mon Sep 26 15:22:50 CDT 2005
Eric Hanchrow wrote:
> * Svnbook/src/en/book/ch02.xml
>
> (Updates and Commits are Separate): minor clarification
> Index: ch02.xml
> ===================================================================
> --- ch02.xml (revision 1602)
> +++ ch02.xml (working copy)
> @@ -724,8 +724,11 @@
> revision 15, but that's not the case! Any number of changes
> might have happened in the repository between revisions 10
> and 15. It would be a lie to claim that we had a working
> - copy of revision 15, the client simply doesn't know. If, on
> - the other hand, <command>svn commit</command> were to
> + copy of revision 15: the client knows nothing of those
> + changes in the repository, since you haven't yet done
> + <command>svn update</command>, and <command>svn
> + commit</command> doesn't pull down new changes. If, on
> + the other hand, <command>svn commit</command> <emphasis>were</emphasis> to
> automatically download the newest changes, then it would be
> possible to set the entire working copy to revision
> 15—but then we'd be breaking the fundamental rule
Thanks, I committed this with minor changes in r1705.
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