You're right, I stand corrected.
What a pity we don't have a standard URL format that combines the path
and revision, then we could make the wc "sticky" by switching to that
URL ...
(Now wait 10 secs for this thought to percolate to the cerebrum ... :-)
Jay Freeman (saurik) wrote:
>Ummm... no? You don't have write access to most of the repositories you
>want sticky tags for, and you don't always want to sticky tag to tags (hell,
>I hardly ever... I usually use CVS to sticky tag to specific dates, not
>tags). How exactly do I phrase the request to the Apache people that I want
>them to make a directory copy of revision 352 of Xerces to a tag so that I,
>and I alone, can make sure that I don't update past it, never-the-less an
>hour from now when I decide that version isn't quite what I wanted and
>change again?
>
>What about the case where you have specific files or directories you want at
>later versions in these child repositories? Building your own directory on
>the server is only something developers are going to have the luxiory to do,
>regular users need to rely on the strength of a good client interface.
>
>Sincerely,
>Jay Freeman (saurik)
>saurik@saurik.com
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Branko Čibej" <brane@xbc.nu>
>To: "Julian Fitzell" <julian@beta4.com>
>Cc: "svn-dev List" <dev@subversion.tigris.org>
>Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 5:13 PM
>Subject: Re: Merging and switching
>
>
>>Julian Fitzell wrote:
>>
>...
>
>>This is trivial in SVN -- you just check out a tag, then no amount of
>>updating will pull in any changes. Yes, subversion has automagically
>>built-in sticky tags, called directory copies. :-)
>>
>
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Brane Čibej <brane_at_xbc.nu> http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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