Re: "svn branch" and "svn label"

--- Garrett Rooney <rooneg@electricjellyfish.net>
wrote:
> Noel Yap wrote:
>
> > I'd just like to further understand why everyone
> is
> > against the following:
> > 1. Adding "svn branch" and "svn label" (which,
> BTW, I
> > seem to recall reading about in the doc).
>
> well, i don't think you'll find it anywhere in the
> docs...

Ahh, here it is. From the Subversion Design document
under Branching and Tagging:
Note that from the user's point of view, there are
still separate branch and tag commands, with the
latter initialiszing the clone as read-only ...

> what do you think such a command would do? svn
> doesn't have any built
> in idea of what a 'branch' or a 'label' is. they're
> both just
> directories, so you create them with 'copy'.

Right, the file system doesn't know the difference.
The proposal doesn't intend to change that in any way.

> > 2. Adding "svn:type" to indicate element types.
>
> what exactly do you mean by 'element type'?

An element type would be one of directory, file,
branch, tag, or special types (eg pipe, ...) if
support is later added for them.

I think the element type is as much metadata as other
metadata.

Noel

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Received on Tue Oct 15 19:09:14 2002