RE: Re: changelog genneration between tags

I've been thinking about this a lot as of late. Would it be possible/practical to use a non-revisioned property for this kind of thing? I don't have Subversion up in a production environment, but I know it takes a hook to turn this functionality on. Plus, you'd want a hook to prevent duplicate properties, if that's even possible when applying a property. Plus making it read-only except for admins. Plus ...? But it seems like it might work. You'd just have to use --revprop and --rev together when you wanted to check out, export, etc.

Maybe?

-Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Koning [mailto:pkoning@equallogic.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 5:44 PM
To: seb@exse.net
Cc: users@subversion.tigris.org
Subject: Re: changelog genneration between tags

>>>>> "Sebastian" == Sebastian Böhm <seb@exse.net> writes:

 Sebastian> Hi, making changelogs with svs is easy : "svn log -r
 Sebastian> 100:200 --verbose" .

 Sebastian> But how do I make a changelog between two tags (copies) ?

You can't, really.

For branches, the "copy" style that Subversion uses is pretty
effective. But I'm beginning to think it is a fundamental mistake for
tags.

Tags are (conceptually) not copies; they are symbolic names for a
revision. CVS gets this right. What Subversion should do is to
define a mechanism for giving names to a given Subversion revision.
That would let you do what you want, and it would satisfy all uses of
tagging I have run into. By contrast, the tagging approach that
currently exists is awkward in some cases, and worse in others. I
haven't yet run into *any* situation where it felt natural.

        paul

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