"Jay Freeman \(saurik\)" <saurik@saurik.com> writes:
> As Steve might say: "I had not thought of that!" Technically a massive
> client could be built that does that work for me, but it wouldn't be
> able to understand the "tags" as real tags due to the concept being a
> fiction of the people using the repository and not a generally accepted
> "this is the way tags work" that has been coded into the version
> control.
>
> And what happens when I want a specific subdirectory to be at one tag
> revision from another, but still want to do merge operations, and what
> happens when... I KNEW this "quick copy" idea was going to get nasty at
> some point, I was just hoping you guys would have already figured out
> why it was going to work before it started freaking me out.
I *think* all your concerns can be addressed by Subversion properly
using the `created-rev' field in filesystem nodes. Subversion doesn't
use that field currently, but that's just because no one has gotten
around to using it. In the next milestone, we'll be using it quite a
bit, for example.
-K
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Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:57 2006