On Thursday 23 September 2004 12:42 pm, Mark Phippard wrote:
> Sean Laurent <sean@neuronfarm.com> wrote on 09/23/2004 01:32:21 PM:
> > There's also the concept of 'labels', provided by software like Perforce
> > and presumably others, which has been mentioned on this list before.
> > In Perforce, a label is simply way to reference a particular revision...
> > very similar to the CVS tag mechanism. I know this has been mentioned
> > on the list before
>
> To me, this is an advantage of Subversion since the global revision number
> is always present as a means to refer to a specific revision. You do not
> need to create a label to accomplish the same thing. For the same reason,
> you do not really even need to create a tag. The tag is a convenience
> item for your own benefit, you do not neeed the tags to get the same
> results from merges or other operations, as you can also just specify the
> equivalent revision number.
Well, I have encountered one situation where labels were significantly easier
to use than global revision numbers. I worked in a small-medium sized
company with about 60+ developers/QA that built shrink-wrap software. We had
an automated build system that created a clean build of a product, posted it
to a server and sent out a notification email (among a myriad of other
things). After the build completed, the system set a label called
'productname_CURRENT' to point to the current revision.
It was incredibly handy for developers and QA to reference the label, instead
of worrying about the revision number... However, this could just as easily
be handled by branches/tags in Subversion. The only difference, as someone
already pointed out, is really just the mindset ... the nomenclature.
-Sean
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Received on Thu Sep 23 20:01:16 2004