How can I customize SVN revisions?

Question

I would like to know how to customize revision numbering in SVN. I have a repository I am running on an Ubuntu machine. The entire thing is currently just incremental revisions: Current revision 7.

I want to be able to customize the entire thing with a version numbering system (such as r1.0.0) and tag certain items inside it with an additional version system.

For example:

../myproject
../myproject/file1
../myproject/file2
../myproject/firmware/firmware_file1.bin
../myproject/firmware/firmware_file2.bin

Everything in the myproject directory would be under a release version (r1.0.0). And the firmware files would be a part of the main r1.0.0 release, but would also have their current fw version tagged. So if firmware_file1 was version 5.6 for that product. It would have a tag of v5.6.

Does that make sense? I am new to SVN and have been reading documentation, but have not come across instructions on how to do this.

Thanks!

Answer 1

You can not have revisions in svn be anything but incremental, but you don't need to. You need tags.

Check out:

• http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch04s06.html
• How to properly create an SVN tag from trunk?