Book

John Maher JohnM at rotair.com
Fri Sep 14 09:20:42 CDT 2012


 

Awesome!  It feels good to be able to give back a little.

 

John

 

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From: C. Michael Pilato [mailto:cmpilato at gmail.com] On Behalf Of C.
Michael Pilato
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2012 10:01 AM
To: John Maher
Cc: svnbook-dev at red-bean.com
Subject: Re: Book

 

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.

On 09/14/2012 08:38 AM, John Maher wrote:

	Hello

	I found something in the book that was rather confusing 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'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) which is not the case for revision
numbers.  To be clear it would be better to call it a repository tree or
better yet the repository tree or something similar.  I know this is a
common problem because when I asked for help from the mailing list they
replied:

	"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."

	They know exactly the problem I was having 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.

	Original:

	Global Revision Numbers

	Unlike most version control systems, Subversion's revision
numbers apply to entire trees, not individual files. 

	Better:

	Global Revision Numbers

	Unlike most version control systems, Subversion's revision
numbers apply to the entire repository tree, not individual files. 

	Thanks

	John

	
	
	
	

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