Re: "freezing" a tag or branch tree

Daniel Patterson <danpat@adaptiveinternational.com> writes:

> 2) If someone wants to update a tag, they *have* to copy it
> to /branches (and name it appropriately), make their change,
> fix it, and then move the branch back to /tags. Tags
> can't be deleted or overwritten.

Yup, this is exactly what the Subversion project does. When we wanted
to release 0.24.2, we copied the 0.24.1 tag to a branch, made some
changes, and then copied the branch back to /tags/0.24.2.

> 2) Full change history on all files, you can trace "which tag was
> the parent of this one" kind of thing.

And with the new fs db schema, 'svn log /tags/0.24.2' now shows all
the copy events, back to the original 0.24.0 branch. It's great stuff!

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Received on Thu Sep 18 01:53:06 2003