Re: Question: Rev 914

OK, Thanks for clearing that up. The next obvious question is: How to
tell what revision a certain tag came from? (Or will that not normally be
an issue?)

   Thanks.
   - David

On 16 Jan 2002, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:

> Date: 16 Jan 2002 19:54:31 -0600
> From: Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net>
> To: David Summers <david@summersoft.fay.ar.us>
> Cc: "dev@subversion.tigris.org" <dev@subversion.tigris.org>
> Subject: 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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