Re: svn commit: rev 6876 - in branches: release-0.28 release-0.28.0

> Luke Blanshard wrote:
>
> Blair Zajac wrote:
>
> > Michael Wood wrote:
> >
> >
> >> ... I think renaming the tags would be a bit dodgy.
> >>
> >>
> > For what reason? They are just symbolic names after all.
> >
> Because tags aren't supposed to change over time. That is, neither
> their contents nor their names should change: you want someone who's
> still using an old version to be able to refer to that version with the
> tag that they originally used to fetch it. If you rename it, it's as
> good as gone to someone who relied on the old name.

I'm not suggesting the tag contents change, just the name of the tag.

I also don't believe anybody is using these tag URLs to check out
working copies, so there won't be an effect of these being renamed.

Blair

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