Re: tags vs. branches

Alexander Mueller <Alexander.Mueller@littleblue.de> writes:

> 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

What great problem are you solving here? Are your users constantly
committing changes to tag-directories? (And if they do, so what?
Slap them on the hand and revert the change.)

This looks like a complex feature for little gain. We already have
two different access control methods (pre-commit hooks and
mod_authz_svn), and there's already been discussion for real ACLs in a
post-1.0 repository someday.

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Received on Tue Sep 2 18:43:11 2003