Versioning svn checkouts [Was: Re: alpha/beta software in Fedora 8?]

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le Jeu 29 novembre 2007 11:06, Petr Machata a écrit :
> Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>> For git that would not be a number but for svn any shuffling
>> upstream
>> does in its VCS can result in revision number changes, so relying on
>> them to identify sources is a big no-go.
>
> So you are telling that I could get two different source trees by
> checking out some given revision X from svn at two different times?

I'm saying that srpms have a long live, and that with svn if you
request revision $number 5 years later if upstream has re-done its svn
in the meanwhile what you'll get is not what you got 5 years before.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot