[MPlayer-DOCS] CVS-compatible mode for SVN? / Major annoyance with SVN revision numbers

[Diego Biurrun]

On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 02:04:05PM +0200, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> I've received 2 mails from ppl who want to contribute to the
> translation effort for the French doc.
> While I was trying to explain the revision tag thingie, I came to
> realize that at least half of the existing files still have the old
> CVS-style "synced with 1.xx" sync tag, which is quite useless now that
> we have SVN....
> 
> My question is: is it possible to somehow get SVN to
> "emulate"/"Understand" CVS file revision numbers to say, get the diff
> between "old version 1.102 of faq.xml and today's"....

Maybe it could be done, but since I assume it affects only about 20-30
files I really don't think it's worth it the effort.

> If the newcomers can't do this, I fear that they won't stick around....

Well, as the head of the translation team you will have to find out
which Subversion revision it is and update the text then :)

Diego