Re: Newbie Question - TAGS

On 2/17/06, Matt C <matthew.n.connors@lmco.com> wrote:
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> I want to Tag our source code each time we push a new release into
> Production. I've read through the manual and done a little testing. From
> what I can tell each time I create a Tag the source tree in gets copied.
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> This means each time I create a Tag a whole bunch of disk space is being
> used up. Am I missing something here? Is it true that each time I create a
> Tag a new copy of the code is being made?
>

Yes, but it's a cheap copy of constant size with only modifications on that
tag taking up additional space. Modifications to tags probably happens very
rarely. Read the details
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn-book.html and search for "cheap
copies".
Received on Fri Feb 17 18:00:51 2006