TortoiseSVN: What is a head audit?

Question

I am a VSS user learning how to use SVN, and I chose TortoiseSVN as my platform. Can someone tell me what the term “HEAD Revision” means?

Answer 1

This means the latest version.

Getting the HEAD Revision from SVN will be like "Get the latest ..." in VSS.

Answer 2

Since your question is specific to Subversion, here's what it says

Answer 3

This is the latest / current version of the project.

Answer 4

Wikipedia defines it as:

Head Last fixation.

See Common_vocabulary .

Answer 5

The latest revision you submitted to the repository.

Example: if your last commit created revision 15, then 15 is a HEAD revision

Answer 6

The Tortoise help file is worth a read. From the glossary:

HEAD Version
The latest revision of a file or folder in the repository.

Answer 7

In Subversion, the repository has a sequentially numbered revision that marks each state. HEAD is an alias for the latest version of the repository. If no revision is specified, HEAD is assumed.

The contents of the file and directory refer to the path and version. A link to the contents of the path when the repository was changed to this revision - whether the contents of the path were changed or not.

Note. If the last action on the path was to delete it, that path does not have a HEAD revision (or a repository revision created after the deletion was completed, and after that).

[So, contrary to some other answers and some cited documents, HEAD does not refer to the latest version of the file. You will need to return at least before it is deleted for this.]