On 2008-04-09 13:08:39 -0400, Avery Pennarun wrote:

quoted text
> For example, in svn you can talk about
> svn+ssh://reposerver/path/to/repo/branches/foo@1234; it's a single
> "word" that refers to a particular revision on a particular branch
> of a particular server.

Heh, not really. Subversion actually makes this even more confusing
than git does.

The @rev is called a "peg revision", and is different from the
"operative revision" specified with the -r flag. The peg revision is
used in conjunction with a path to specify the file (or directory) you
want, and the operative revision is used to specify which revision of
that file you mean. (This complexity is needed because subversion has
a concept of file identity.)

So

  $ svn cp -r 4711 $REPO/foo@1234 somewhere-else

means "find the file (or directory) that was called 'foo' in revision
1234, then copy revision 4711 of that file to somewhere-else".

See http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn.advanced.pegrevs.html for
the full story.

-- 
Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com
      www.treskal.com/kalle
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