On 2001-10-08 13:55:43 Kevin Pilch-Bisson wrote:
>On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 01:38:03PM +0100, peter.westlake@arm.com wrote:
>>
>>
>> Actually, there's a third case: several products
>> use a library with a very well-defined interface
>> and release structure. Each product knows which
>> revision of the library it wants to use. In HOPE
>> this would be a component; in Subversion it would
>> be a "static reference", which is a reference to
>> a particular revision of a node - if I can persuade
>> this community that this would be a good idea!
>
>Isn't this a tag?
The implementation in HOPE uses tags: instead of saying
which branch of a sub-compound you want to include, you
give a tag instead. Subversion doesn't have such a clear
idea of tags - if you could take a clone, and *guarantee*
that it would never have any changes made to it, then I
guess that would give the right effect, yes.
I've read in the past that the Subversion equivalent of
a tag is a read-only clone. Now, is the read-only property
on the repository or on the files in the repository, if you
see what I mean? I'm guessing it must be on the repository,
because the permissions required for the files and dirs on
disk are completely independent of whether they are allowed
to change over time.
This might be simpler than I thought :-)
Peter.
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