Default revision of 1

[Blair Zajac]

Good idea.  No, I haven't tried.  Does it work?

Regards,
Blair

Randall Wood wrote:
> Have you tried using revision -1 (negative 1) for your private ports?
> 
> On 9 Oct 2006, at 23:23, Blair Zajac wrote:
> 
>> When I'm developing a new port or want to override the default port in 
>> MacPort's
>> svn with a local port of a newer upstream release, it would be nice to 
>> have a
>> range of revision numbers that is smaller than any revision number from
>> MacPort's svn repository.
>>
>> This would enable me to have a local port, say subversion 1.4.1-0, and 
>> then when the real subversion 1.4.1-1 comes out, I'll get an out of 
>> date warning.
>>
>> Also, is the revision an integer, a floating point value, or does it 
>> compare values like the version number, it 0.10 is greater than 0.9?
>>
>> Would people mind defaulting the revision to 1?
>>
>> I don't know how this would be rolled out.  It would cause a massive 
>> upgrade.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Blair
>>
>> --Blair Zajac, Ph.D.
>> CTO, OrcaWare Technologies
>> <blair at orcaware.com>
>> Subversion training, consulting and support
>> http://www.orcaware.com/svn/
>>
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> 
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