Stefan Küng wrote:
> Alessandro Iurlano wrote:
>
>> When we did our first branch on tag operation we noticed something
>> strange that we did not expect.
>> We use tags for released versions (e.g. 1.1, 1.2) and another minor
>> version for bugfixed releases (e.g. 1.1d1, 1.1d2).
>> Yesterday a customer asked for a bugfix on a released version and for
>> this we did our first branch on tag.
>>
>> The operations we did were:
>>
>> Checkout of the /tags/release_1.0
>> Create branch /branches/release_1.0-dev
>> Switch to branch release_1.0-dev
>> Apply the fix and commit
>>
>> Just then we noticed the unexpected thing. The branch creation from
>> the tag is visualized in the revision graph
>> with a grey node between the old green tag and the new green branch
>> node. This grey node has a revision number which
>> is the same revision number of the last commit trunk had at the time
>> of branch creation. The log message and creation
>> date displayed in the tooltip are the same of the trunk one too. Only
>> the url is different.
>
> That's expected.
>
>> This unexpected situation, however, seems not to cause any problems,
>> as inspecting logs for the new branch does not
>> show anything related to this unusual node.
>
> You see: you most likely had the "HEAD revision in the repository"
> radio button activated in the branch/tag dialog. When you do that,
> then the branch is created directly on the repository from the HEAD
> revision.
> But since a tag is supposed to not get modified, you won't run into
> any problems, because since the creation of the tag and now (the HEAD
> revision), there were not changes to the tag, and so the newly created
> branch is exactly the same as if it were created from the
> last-committed revision of the tag.
>
> Stefan
>
Yes that was the problem. We misunderstood the meaning of that HEAD
revision thinking that it was the highest revision number of that "path".
Thanks a lot for the clarification.
Alessandro
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