[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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