[VCS] Merging IAtomic* into IBasic*

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 10.05.07 10:10:22, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> Robert Gruber wrote:
> > Implementing IAtomicBrowsableVersionControl does not 
> > really make much sens for CVS. Unlike in SVN a revision 
> > is not unique, so you can't find any changes with only 
> > a revision. You always need a file and a revision. If I 
> > understand correctly, repositoryRevision() is nothing else 
> > than calling "cvs status" on the given file. It will give 
> > the repository revision, which will (if the file's up-to-date) 
> > be the same as the lokal revision.
> 
> Just to clarify:
> repositoryRevision gets the most recent revision committed to the /whole 
> repository/ (like the "Last Changed Rev" in 'svn info'). So if I am 
> understanding you correctly, there is no such thing in CVS. Note that 
> repositoryRevision does *not* take a repo path. I think you would use 
> log() to get the information you are talking about.

Did you look at repositoryRevision lately? It does take a path and IMHO
its not what you want it to be. It tells you the last revision when the
given path was changed. What would use-case do you have for knowing the
latest global revision number?

Andreas

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