Re: Question: Rev 914

David Summers <david@summersoft.fay.ar.us> writes:

> I'm a bit confused. I saw the tag for 0.8.0 (Rev 914) go through and then
> later when I updated to latest versions in directory containing trunk I
> got the tags/0.8.0 directory as well as latest trunk updates but all the
> stuff in tags/0.8.0 now shows up as rev 924 (!) (?)
>
> I thought that a tag froze the code at that version show that it wouldn't
> show up as later versions doing a "svn st -v" ??? I'm probably just
> misunderstanding something simple.

Indeed you are. The global revision number continues to grow as we
commit to /trunk. However, the directory /tags/0.8.0 is essentially
a symlink to /trunk *in revision 909*.

Remember, a tag is just a cheap copy of a directory, and more
specifically, a directory in a particular revision. As long as nobody
commits to /tags/0.8.0, it will remain a "tag." (If we start
committing there, it becomes a branch.)

So if you check out /tags/0.8.0, even all the files claim to be at
revision 924, it's safe to assume that they're identical copies of
/trunk in 909.

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Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:56 2006