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Re: [TSVN] tag history

From: Attila Tajti <attila.tajti_at_t-online.hu>
Date: 2005-10-06 08:10:19 CEST

On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 19:00:59 +0200, Matthias Wächter
<matthias.waechter@tttech.com> wrote:

<Off-Topic>

> I think that's due to one of the most severe misconceptions of SVN, not
> distinguishing a tag (should be: bidirectional link/copy read-only) from
> a branch (should be: bidirectional link/copy read-write) from a copy
> (unidirectional copy). Not to mention that revision numbers must be used
> as part of a tag to be really precise. Related to this issue is the
> exclusion of tag/branch/copy operation from the "svn:external" property
> feature.
>
> Of course it eases development of SVN and allows a lot of 'new' concepts
> within a project not possible with CVS. But handling tags/branches the
> way I described would require an adaption of the subversion client, the
> server as well as the database backend structure which means currently
> the VC system can't handle it correctly out-of-the-box.
>
> *sigh*

Thanks for your explanation, I didn't like it this concept in SVN either
but I thought it was only me. What's also frustrating in this is that
I still haven't found anything which wouldn't be possible if bidirectional
links were implemented. Even notes/schema-tradeoffs.txt suggests that
these were possible, and doesn't say anything which would justify the
lack of bidirectional links.

The only thing I found in this file which tries to justify this concept is:

Quote:
        Organizations tend to create branches and tags quite
        frequently -- much more frequently than asking the question "which
        tags contain a specific file?"

But according to my experience in some organizations developers ask that
question 10-100 times more frequently than creating tags or branches. Sure
this may not be true for open source projects but in my case I often
have to look if a bug was fixed in version x and a feature was implented
in version y in our software, which would be very time consuming in SVN.

</Off-Topic>

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Attila Tajti
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