Re: A couple more subversion notes

[Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>]

Daniel Berlin writes:
 > 
 > > It seems to be incredibly hard to find out which branch a file is on.  
 > 
 > Huh?
 > 
 > The file is where it is.
 > Branches are just seperate directories.
 > If it's in the 4.0 directory, it's on the 4.0 branch
 > 
 > Revision numbers don't tell you what branch something is on.
 > They tell you what revision the repository is at, and the changesets
 > that have been applied to the repository.
 > 
 > If you want to know where the file is, ask where the file is :)
 > 
 > > 
 > > [aph@zorro gcc-head-test]$ svn status --verbose ChangeLog
 > >            105366   104478 mmitchel     ChangeLog
 > > 
 > > Now, I happen to know that this is gcc-4_0-branch, and presumably if I
 > > make any changes and check it back in that's where the changes will
 > > go. 
 > 
 > svn info ChangeLog

Aah, that's the key.  Where we have one command in CVS, "status",
which tells us which branch a file is on and its status, we now have
two separate commands, "status" and "info".  Easy enough, once you
know...

Andrew.