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Re: Repo Browser question

From: Robert Dailey <rcdailey_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:04:51 -0500

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Robert Dailey wrote:
>
> > This is a sufficient work around for now, but I would really like to see
> > more support for this later. As I've been suggesting, a Branch/Tag
> > option in the repo browser would be better. It would require less
> > jumping around revisions in the repo browser (I'd have to first switch
> > to HEAD to get the URL I'm going to copy to, then switch to revision 4
> > to perform the actual copy).
>
> Well, usually you want to actually *see* what you're creating the branch
> from, so adding such a feature to the HEAD revision of the repobrowser
> seems strange.
>
> Also, I find it much easier to use the log dialog to create that
> branch/tag from an earlier revision.

And branch/tag is nothing more than a fancy copy operation, right? Are there
any fundamental differences between SVN Copy and SVN branch/tag? I realize
this is more of a question for the subversion list, but since we're already
on the topic I hope you won't mind answering for them. Thanks.
Received on 2008-09-12 23:05:00 CEST

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