Re: post-commit hook questions

On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 03:49:38PM -0700, Noel Yap wrote:
> If, for example, as someone had suggested earlier, a "svn ln" command
> were created that can create hard links, then tags could be created
> using "svn ln" while branches could be created using "svn cp". Not
> only would the hard link be implicitly read only, but one would also
> be able to tell the difference between branches and tags.

'svn ln' sounds entirely different to a tag to me. A hard link in the
repository created using 'svn ln' ought to track the source of the link
(otherwise you might as well just use 'svn cp'!), while a tag logically
stays fixed forever at a particular version of its source.

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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