Resolving diverged branches in Subversion repository

[Jelmer Vernooij]

Am Sonntag, den 22.06.2008, 10:25 -0500 schrieb John Arbash Meinel:
> What I've never really understood is why the list of revision ids has to
> grow each time. (You could store just the tip each time.) I guess it has
> something to do with how long it takes to query the history of an object.
The reason for that is that it allows you to quickly evaluate whether a
particular revid can be found in a branch by trying to parse the revid
(if it's a standard bzr-svn revid) and checking whether it is present in
the bzr:revision-id property of that branch in the head revision.

Cheers,

Jelmer

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