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

[Guillaume Poirier]

Hi,

Diego Biurrun wrote:
> 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 :)

Then I'd need to know what was the initial revision number of MPlayer
when it got online the first time after the crash. How to I do this?

Guillaume