On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 05:38, Julian Foad <julian.f...@wandisco.com> wrote: > A user wrote to dev@ today: >> I have now taken the plunge and moved to using version 1.7 tsvn for my >> development. >> >> After updating one of my working copies from 1.6 using TortoiseSVN >> from 2011/03/20 subversion 1.7.0 r1082999 [...] > > I don't know the whole chain of communication or miscommunication that > led to this user saying he's using "1.7" and "1.7.0", but I do suspect > that where we report the version: > > $ svn --version > svn, version 1.7.0 (dev build) > [...] > > people could easily interpret "(dev build)" as "and, by the way, this > copy is built with debugging symbols and/or other stuff that's useful > for developers". > > I think it would make sense to change the output of "svn --version" to > display exactly the same "compact" version string that "--version > --quiet" gives, as well as a slightly more user-facing explanatory note: > > $ svn --version > svn, version 1.7.0-dev (under development) > [...] > > The version string is then clearly "1.7.0-dev" rather than "1.7.0". I > think that's an obvious change that could only reduce the potential for > confusion from our side.
+1 Thanks Julian, -g
