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Re: Dropping Subversion

From: Gerco Ballintijn <Gerco.Ballintijn_at_cwi.nl>
Date: 2004-04-02 13:07:32 CEST

Max Bowsher wrote:

>Marcin Kasperski wrote:
>
>
>>Dnia pia; 2. kwietnia 2004 06:47, Greg Hudson napisa?:
>>
>>
>>>On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 23:44, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>It seems the company where I work will be dropping its plan
>>>>of adopting Subversion company-wide. It seems we'll go with
>>>>CVS instead. This is because of the lack of "labels", or
>>>>tags "a la" CVS (multiple stamps on arbitrary file/revision
>>>>combo).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>That's an odd reason. It seems like you could create a /tags
>>>directory containing a mixed set of components from the trunk
>>>just fine.
>>>
>>>
>>No. Subversion way of creating tags via copying is very good for
>>branches and very, very poor for tags. For me lack of tags or
>>labels is also one of the main stoppers against serious
>>subversion use.
>>
>>
>
>Genuine question: Why does subversion's model of "a tag is a copy" not work
>for you?
>

Yes. Can you (Marcin Kasperski) give us an impossible use-case?

Gerco.

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