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Re: Tags: What is a tag? [was: Tags]

From: Danny van Heumen <danny.vanheumen_at_hccnet.nl>
Date: 2006-07-09 13:12:53 CEST

Branko Čibej wrote:
> Danny van Heumen wrote:
>> Tag is:
>> 1. An alias for a revision number.
>> a) Single revision
>>
>> 2. An alias for multiple revision numbers.
>> a) Multiple revisions.
>>
>> 3. An alias for a revision number for a specific location.
>> a) Single revision
>> b) Specific location
>>
>> 4. An alias for a collection of revisions for a specific location.
>> a) Multiple revisions.
>> b) Specific location.
>>
>> 5. An alias for a collection of revisions for a specific location with a
>> possibility for adding non-versioned files (and folders etc.)
>> a) Multiple revisions.
>> b) Specific location.
>> c) Versioned + non-versioned files.
>>
>> If I understand correctly Subversion currently supports the fifth
>> concept, which is also the most extensive.
>>
> There is no such thing as a non-versioned file in Subversion, so they
> can't be part of a tag.
Well, It's a scenario I found in the mailing list a while ago. Someone
explained that he made tags, but he included files that weren't
versioned earlier.
The example he gave was: They build the binaries. They normally don't
version them, but when they create a tag for a new release they do. So
they create a tag with both the source files (for the new release
version) that are already present in the repository and the newly
generated binaries that aren't yet versioned.
Of course when you commit all files are versioned.

But... thinking about it... "adding the binaries to the tag" may be a
separate action (done after creating the tag) and in that case '5' is
not a valid concept. (Need some help here ;)

Quote:
"Tagging the working copy, e.g., after a successful build, involves
copying a directory in the repository, *and* committing all the working
copy modifications to the copy. In this type of tag, the copy contains
some information found nowhere else in the repository, so it can't be
represented by a URL and revision."

Found here: http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2006-03/0882.shtml

> You certainly can't include
> several versions of the same object in a tag, but you can include
> different objects at different revisions.
And that is exactly what I meant to say. Thanks :D

Danny

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