Subversion revision number across multiple projects

Question

When using Subversion (svn) for source control with multiple projects I\'ve noticed that the revision number increases across all of my projects\' directories. To illustrat

Answer 1

When you really think about, the revision numbers in a multiple project repository are going to get high, but you are not going to run out. Keep in mind that you can view a history on a sub directory and quickly see all the revision numbers that pertain to a project.

Actually if your building Microsoft code, and you use the svn revision numbers as a part of your version string then you could run out. Microsoft compiler will throw an error if any part of the version string is greater than 65535.... In our case we have a massive repository at revision 68876 and we just hit this wall.