Re: Creating something like increasing revision numbers

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date: Oct 19, 2009, 01:34 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0910182122100.21739@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <20091019004447.GC11739@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>

On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, Norbert Preining wrote:

> Now my follow-up questions:
> - how would one access this "sequence" number on the server

you can count how many commits the server has: git rev-list HEAD | wc -l

> - is there a way to determine at which of this "sequence" numbers a specific
>   file has been changed last?

You can do: git log <path/filename>. That would give you a list of commits that touched that file. But to find out which commit "number" it is you could do:

	git rev-list $(git rev-list -1 HEAD <path/file>) | wc -l

Again, that is true for a particular repository only and may give a different result in another repository with a different state even for the same commit.

However, given what you want to do is really to stick to the SVN way of doing things, then why don't you simply stay with SVN? Git works in a fundamentally different way than SVN, and if you aren't willing/able to change your workflow away from the SVN way then there is really not much for you to gain by switching to Git.

Nicolas