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RE: Idea to emulate CVS tags.

From: Zsolt Koppany <zkoppanylist_at_intland.com>
Date: 2005-07-06 21:32:49 CEST

Hi Ian,

And how can I do log --stop-on-copy from subclipse?

Zsolt

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ian Brockbank [mailto:Ian.Brockbank@wolfsonmicro.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 2:57 PM
>To: users@subclipse.tigris.org
>Subject: RE: Idea to emulate CVS tags.
>
>Hi Zsolt,
>
>> I would like to move from cvs to subversion but because
>> subversion versions
>> the repository and not the files (as far as I know) it cannot
>> be (easily)
>> figured out on which tag a file was modified.
>>
>> With other words I cannot diff a working copy with for
>> example the tag:
>> rel_1_2, I have to know the revision number of that tag (for
>> example 56) and
>> then I can diff.
>>
>> Would it be useful if subclipse provided a preferences (or
>> whatever) dialog
>> where aliases can be configured?
>>
>> For example:
>> Alias Revision
>> Rel_1_2 23
>> Rel_1_3 35
>> Rel_2_0 40
>>
>> Now if I wanted to compare a working copy with "Rel_1_2"
>> subclipse would
>> replace that with the real revision number.
>>
>> What do you think?
>
>Tag management is something that would be good to have in Subclipse,
>however I think it would be better to look at the revision numbers
>at which tags were created and use those, rather than inventing another
>concept. You can find the version at which a tag was created by doing
>a log --stop-on-copy. The last (oldest) version in the log is the
>version
>where the tag was created.
>
>You would need some mechanism for people to indicate their tag schema.
>In particular you would need to support both
>http://server/repos/tags/project
>and http://server/repos/project/tags formats (since these are both
>suggested
>in the book).
>
>Cheers,
>
>Ian Brockbank
>Applications Software Team Leader
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