tags vs. branches

Well. The discussion of the differences between tags and branches has
been discussed a couple of times in the mailing lists.

The main difference appears to be the "final" status: branches are
a line of development while tags are markers to a single revision.

Different possibility haven been discussed how to get tag functionality.
Just one example:
  set up a pre-commit hook that forbids comming to an already
  existing tag

But how about this:
- introduce a new property svn:final. If this is true/1 then no changes
can be commit to the files that have this property set

- set this property either manually or with svn cp command:
  svn cp -r1234 --final http://svnserver/svn/myproc/trunk \
    http://svnserver/svn/myproc/tags/0.11

- when copying files will lose the svn:final flag. This way you
  can copy a tag into a branch a will be able to commit changes to
  the branch

- files/dirs with svn:final property still can be deleted

Xela

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Received on Tue Sep 2 17:16:20 2003