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Version Control with Subversion
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Version Control with Subversion - Revisions: Numbers, Keywords, and Dates, Oh My!

Revisions: Numbers, Keywords, and Dates, Oh My!

Before we go on, you should know a bit about how to identify a particular revision in your repository. As you learned in the section called “Revisions”, a revision is a “snapshot” of the repository at a particular moment in time. As you continue to commit and grow your repository, you need a mechanism for identifying these snapshots.

You specify these revisions by using the --revision (-r) switch plus the revision you want ( svn --revision REV ) or you can specify a range by separating two revisions with a colon ( svn --revision REV1:REV2 ). And Subversion lets you refer to these revisions by number, keyword, or date.

Revision Numbers

When you create a new Subversion repository, it begins its life at revision zero and each successive commit increases the revision number by one. After your commit completes, the Subversion client informs you of the new revision number:

$ svn commit --message "Corrected number of cheese slices."
Sending        sandwich.txt
Transmitting file data .
Committed revision 3.

If at any point in the future you want to refer to that revision (we'll see how and why we might want to do that later in this chapter), you can refer to it as “3”.


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