--- Colin Watson <cjwatson@flatline.org.uk> wrote:
> 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.
I was thinking more that:
svn ln -r 5 $SVNROOT/project/main/{HEAD,3}
would create $SVNROOT/project/main/3 as a hard link to
revision 5 of $SVNROOT/project/main/HEAD. Since
revision 5 cannot be modified, the hard link would
also be read only.
Noel
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