On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 04:44:24PM +0100, Christian Schoenebeck wrote: > On Thursday 24 December 2009 15:59:38 Stefan Sperling wrote: > > What if I do an update which should not update the working copy > > root, such as "svn update somefile"? > > Then you have a mixed revision working copy. To address this case a bit > better, instead of introducing one new keyword like "GlobalRevision", one > could introduce two new keywords instead like "GlobalRevisionMin" and > "GlobalRevisionMax". So the user can decide whether he wants the respective > places to be substituted by the most biggest or most smallest revision number > in his working copy. > > I would however substitute all files mentioned in the suggested global > property, no matter which part of the working copy is being updated. So even > if just one unrelated file gets "svn update"ed, all files in the whole > working > copy would be substituted. >
What problem do you really want to solve with this? Why is svnversion not good enough for your problem? Stefan
