Re: M7: Branches and Tags

At 09:22 AM 11/16/2001 -0500, Kevin Pilch-Bisson wrote:
>I think the issue is that most of the svn developers have been concerned with
>branching/tagging a whole project, whereas Bruce wants an easy way to tag a
>single file, without typing that files path in the tags area.
>
>Now maybe the way to do this is to just always branch/tag the whole project
>(since it doesn't take up any extra space/time).

This is a very interesting idea, but I can see a few problems with it.

First of all, it assumes that everything in your working copy is ready to
be promoted. This is often not the case, and will almost certainly result
in developers getting very confused about files "mysteriously" getting tagged.

Secondly, I don't think it would play well with other developers changes.
You would essentially be saying that all files in your working copy are
ready to be promoted, including those being worked on by somebody else.
They might not be too happy about that.

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Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:48 2006