From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 09:06:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-svn: handle changed svn command-line syntax
Message-ID: <20070922090617.GA6817@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20070921082348.GA5152@mayonaise>

On 2007-09-21 01:23:48 -0700, Eric Wong wrote:

> The @REV and -rREV distinction/ambiguity has always confused me in svn,
> too.  It always seems that it needed to be one way sometimes, the other
> way at other times, and even _both_ at other times...

-rREV specifies the operative revision, and @REV specifies the peg
revision. See the clear but dreadfully long explanation here:

  http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn.advanced.pegrevs.html

In short, it's a way to manage the complexity that comes from
considering files (and directories!) to have an identity that is
preserved across copies and renames.

-- 
Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com
      www.treskal.com/kalle