Re: SVN has been replaced by Mercurial for official Euphoria development
- Posted by jeremy (admin) Dec 20, 2010
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With the new rev id, how can one tell if the revision I'm running was built earlier or later than another revision built on the same day?
I asked a similar question. I think it's also worth while to display the rev, even if only for dev builds. These numbers can get out of sync among repos, but they're definitely useful for a developer.
It should be noted here that even displaying rev, it will not tell if one binary is newer than another. This was the same w/SVN as well. You could be working away for three or four days on a revision. If you do not commit during that time, the rev number (in hg or in the old svn) will remain the same. Thus, you do not have any indication from euphoria itself as to which binary may be newer if you have made no commits. To determine that, simply look at the file date w/dir or ls I guess.
Now, one thing where this is different and in favor of hg is that since your repo is local, you may work to a logical step and commit. Your commit is local and will not affect others until you deem your work complete and decide to push. So, one could commit many times during the development of an addition/change/bug fix and thus your rev number would increase.
Jeremy
