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Re: Subversion history: Why was/is tagging/branching implemented as copy?

From: Brian Huddleston <brianh_at_huddleston.net>
Date: 2003-11-04 04:43:08 CET

Of course there are quite a few people that think that distinction between
tags and branching actually grew up for a reason and aren't just a product
of years of RCS systems "not thinking about the problem right".

We *like* the tag semantic of a read-only snapshot of history, have build
and development processes that rely on that semantic and would like that
semantic to be enforced by something other than social convention. :-)

*cries softly to himself "I just wanted CVS with directory versioning"*

Brian Huddleston
BetweenMarkets, Inc.

----- Original Message -----
>
> We tried to think of an important difference between tags/branches and
> copies, and couldn't, so we just decided to implement them as copies
> and make it user-visible.
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