You don't need revision numbers. We're doing a clean job of tagging (SVN term: copying) our codebase. If, for example, you want the revision that xmlgraphics-commons-1.0.jar was built with, checkout (or switch to): http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/xmlgraphics/commons/tags/commons-1_0/
It is a convention that nobody commits a change agains a directory under the "tags" directory after it has been created. The only times you need revision numbers is when referencing a particular change or if you want to merge stuff. Otherwise, you can always work with the HEAD revision. I suggest you throw an eye into the excellent SVN book: http://www.svnbook.org The most important thing you need to understand is that in SVN a revision is not a revision of a particular file, but the revision of the whole repository, i.e. a revision indicates a particular state of the repository at a specified point in time. On 18.04.2006 13:01:04 Peter West wrote: > A couple of questions. Is there currently any way to get the svn > revision number of a given fop or commons jar? This presumes that a > given jar has been built from a single revision, of course. > > Tags seem to work differently in svn. It seem possible to create a > tag/branch from components of many revisions and branches. Committing > that tag creates a new revision that includes the tag, AFAICT. If that > is the case, how do I tell that a particular build occurred against a > given tag or branch, as opposed to the trunk? > > There seems to be no compact way, given a working directory set, whether > that set is a reflection of a single revision. status -v appears to give > me current revision number and last change revision number of every > file. Is there a 'give me the revision number of this tree, if it is > consistent' command? > > Peter Jeremias Maerki
