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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Brian Sidebotham wrote:
> Hi Dick,
>
> I was just looking at what I need to change in a patch that was
> against the old SVN revision 2464.
>
> I checked out the code repository using bazaar (which I'm a fan of, I
> really like local branching! :)):
>
> $ bzr branch lp:kicad bzr-head
>
> which gives the following output:
>
> "Branched 2343 revisions"
>
> So the following:
>
> $ bzr diff -r 2464
>
> fails with the output:
>
> "error: requested revision u'2464' not found in branch...."
>
> Which seams reasonable given only 2343 revisions are branched. Back
> over in the latest sourceforge SVN copy, a quick svn info outputs
> "Last changed ref 2518" and under my local svn copy:
>
> $ svn diff -r 2464
>
> works okay and gives me the expected output.
>
> So, I am wondering if the revision numbering has got a bit skewed and
> if this is something we're aware of?
>
> I just thought I'd raise this now just in case something has gone
> wrong with the transfer.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Brian.
>   


The last SVN revision was 2507.   My *guess* is that the discrepancy in 
version numbers is related to the differences in the way file renaming 
is handled.  Bazaar has richer support for it, whereas svn treats it as 
a deletion followed by an add.   Take your own guess, it is likely to be 
as good as mine.

So if bzr can handle a rename operation in one revision count, and svn 
needs two, spread this out over the history of the repo and you end up 
with a big delta in revision number.

Again, only a guess, but I tend to guess well.