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That's great feedback, and I like your suggested fix. I've
committed the change to trunk (r4305), and backported to our 1.7
(r4306) and 1.6 (r4307) branches.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 09/14/2012 08:38 AM, John Maher
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<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font
size="2">Hello</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span
lang="en-us"></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><font size="2">I found something
in the book that was rather confusing</font></span><span
lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font size="2"> and
caused me some problems. It talks about the revision
numbers applying to entire trees. A tree can be defined
several ways and the book doesn</font></span><span
lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font size="2">’</font></span><span
lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font size="2">t define
one at all. If you talk about a repository, a tree and a
file this can lead someone to believe there are several
trees in a repository (trunk, branch, ect)</font></span><span
lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font size="2"> which
is not the case for revision numbers</font></span><span
lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font size="2">.</font></span><span
lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font size="2"> To be
clear it would be better to call it a repository tree</font></span><span
lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font size="2"> or
better yet</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span
lang="en-us"><i> <font size="2">the</font></i></span><span
lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font size="2">
repository tree or something similar.</font></span><span
lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font size="2"> I know
this is a common problem because when I asked for help from
the mailing list they replied:</font></span><span
lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font
size="2">“</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span
lang="en-us"><font face="Courier New" size="2">Note that the
"tree" being talked about there is not an individual branch,
but all nodes in the repository, including the /trunk
directory and the /branches/feature directory.</font></span><span
lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Courier
New" size="2">”</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span
lang="en-us"></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font
size="2">They know exactly the problem I was having</font></span><span
lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font size="2">
probably because they have been asked the same question
several times. I know what it means now but I would bet
that a future reader will not.</font></span><span
lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font
size="2">Original</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span
lang="en-us"><font size="2">:</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span
lang="en-us"></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><b>Global Revision Numbers</b></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us">Unlike
most version control systems, Subversion's revision numbers
apply to<i> entire trees</i>, not individual files. </span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span
lang="en-us"></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span
lang="en-us"><font size="2">Better</font></span><span
lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font size="2">:</font></span><span
lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><b>Global Revision Numbers</b></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us">Unlike
most version control systems, Subversion's revision numbers
apply to<i> the e</i><i>ntire</i><i> repository</i><i> tree</i>,
not individual files. </span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span
lang="en-us"></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial" size="2">Thanks</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial" size="2">John</font></span><span
lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span></p>
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