A user wrote to dev@ today: > I have now taken the plunge and moved to using version 1.7 tsvn for my > development. > > After updating one of my working copies from 1.6 using TortoiseSVN > from 2011/03/20 subversion 1.7.0 r1082999 [...]
I don't know the whole chain of communication or miscommunication that led to this user saying he's using "1.7" and "1.7.0", but I do suspect that where we report the version: $ svn --version svn, version 1.7.0 (dev build) [...] people could easily interpret "(dev build)" as "and, by the way, this copy is built with debugging symbols and/or other stuff that's useful for developers". I think it would make sense to change the output of "svn --version" to display exactly the same "compact" version string that "--version --quiet" gives, as well as a slightly more user-facing explanatory note: $ svn --version svn, version 1.7.0-dev (under development) [...] The version string is then clearly "1.7.0-dev" rather than "1.7.0". I think that's an obvious change that could only reduce the potential for confusion from our side. The "quiet" output would remain as [[[ $ svn --version --quiet 1.7.0-dev ]]] Comments? - Julian