[mythtv-users] Mythtv Svn revision questions

Steven Adeff adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com
Wed Apr 12 20:01:58 UTC 2006


On 4/12/06, rick <rbonafied at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Please forgive my newbness.  Recently, I decided to look at the SVN
> releases.  After looking on the wiki, I saw there were two recommended
> locations for obtaining myth source updates, namely: trunk &
> release-0-19-fixes.  I decided to pull down both sets.  I figured as a
> general user, the thing I was probably after was the fixes.
>
> After doing an update of the fixes, I saw it display a revision number
> of: 9688.  A few file updates arrived.  For kicks, I decided to also do
> an update of the trunk and got the same revision of: 9688.  However,
> this update caused significantly more files to come down.  I should
> mention that prior to doing these updates, I was at a common revision
> for both code bases.
>
> Questions:
> 1) I don't wish to be on the cutting edge, so is release-0-19-fixes the
> one for me?

yes

> 2) Why so many difference in file numbers between the "trunk" and the
> release-0-19-fixes at the same revision?

since both are in the same SVN repositry any changes to any file will
increase the revision number.

> 3) Am I correct in assuming the meaning of what a revision is?  I would
> expect the same files at the same "versions" for a common revision.

yes, but see #2

> 4) How do I see a changelog for the revision?

http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/log/


> For what it's worth, I tried look at the trac browser and was a bit
> confused how files related to a revision.


--
Steve


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