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Re: Read-only tags mentioned in the handbook

From: Garrett Rooney <rooneg_at_electricjellyfish.net>
Date: 2002-09-26 18:00:41 CEST

Kirby C. Bohling wrote:
> The handbook makes of using cp to create a tag, or a branch.
> Specifically, it says that everything is a directory, and that the only
> difference between a tag and a branch is the human applied
> interpretation. It then mentions, marking tags as "read-only". I
> searched for the "read-only" in the handbook and failed to see how you
> could mark a tag that way. I'm guessing it's either a property, or an
> apache config issue?

the 'read-only-ness' of a tag is a purely social convention among the
users of the repository. you could (i imagine) configure apache to
enforce such a convention, but in general, subversion has not built in
way to do so.

-garrett

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