Re: "svn branch" and "svn label"

Noel Yap <yap_noel@yahoo.com> writes:

> My thoughts evolved into making these svn client
> commands but instead of having "branch" perform stuff
> others probably don't want, both "branch" and "label"
> would set a property, say "svn:type" (if it's already
> taken, we can use another tag), that would signify its
> type.

Looks like a non-starter. Consider

$ svn copy http://some.host/repo/trunk http://some.host/repo/branches/xxx

this is fast, it's an O(1) operation. If you want to set a propery on
every file and directory you make it much slower, it becomes an O(N)
operation. If you only set the property on a single directory,
branches/xxx, what do you do when someone access a directory below
that?

Subversion has been designed not to distinguish between "tags" and
"branches", it's a feature. Fast copies, like the one above, are
another designed feature. You have a lot of work to do if you want to
change this.

-- 
Philip Martin
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