Re: "svn branch" and "svn label"

Brian Denny <brian@briandenny.net> writes:

> doesn't the "global revision number per commit" feature
> make (non-branch) tags kind of unnecessary/redundant anyway?
>
> % cat version_history.txt
> beta72 2345
> beta73 2976
> ...
> % svn up `grep beta72 version_history.txt | awk '{ print $2 }'`

Sure... as long as you keep a nice CHANGES-type file, which subversion
itself does.

The fact that we have a /tags/ area in our own repository is simply
showing off that it can be done. I don't think we actually use them. :-)

But remember also that tags can be more granular, just like branches.
You might want to tag some small subdirectory of a project, and that's
the kind of thing that might not be worth recording in a CHANGES file.

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Received on Tue Oct 15 19:19:52 2002