While I do recognize that svn copies are minimal cost operations, I do also
recognize that something is lost from the movement towards copies. For
instance, I highly doubt that the following command would work:
svn merge -r http://xxx/repos/tags/tag16.c:http://xxx/repos/tags/tag17
http://xxx/repos/trunk
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Mathis" <bmathis@directedge.com>
To: "Labanca, Rick" <rick.labanca@studentuniverse.com>
Cc: <users@subversion.tigris.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 9:55 AM
Subject: Re: I miss tags
> The only difference between "real tags" and "all that fake copying" is
> your own concept of what's going on. They both operate in exactly the
> same way. A copy only takes up "1 unit" of the repository and are
> exactly what you're asking for, aliases for a revision, it does not
> duplicate all the files. A "real tag" would also have to be stored in
> the repository, except in svn it's simply part of the file hierarchy.
>
> PS: Devs, maybe we need a "svn tag" command, that's just an alias to
> "svn copy" :).
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