Re: [OT] CVS vs. SVN
David Christensen writes:
> I've been using CVS (and RCS before it) for several years new. I've
> also looked at switched to SVN, but seem to recall that there was an SVN
> "feature" whereby SVN applied to same version number to all files in the
> project (repository?) whenever you checked something in.
Yes, SVN has a global revision number[1].
However it has also commit revision numbers. The commit revision
numbers do not apply to files, but to commits (in SVN commits are
atomic operations).
> I prefer a more traditional scheme whereby version numbers are
> managed on a per-file basis, and only change when the file changes.
You don't have those in SVN. you have version numbers on a per-commit
basis (and the global revision number (on a per-repository basis)).
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[1] http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#globalrev
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