Re: I miss tags

On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 12:55:31PM -0400, Brian Mathis wrote:
> 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.

I think there is an important difference here. SVN assumes
that the granularity of what I want to "tag" is always all
the files in the repo (or at least in the branch). The
notion of being able to tag a subset (for example if I
wanted to group some things into smaller components and
track both component-level "tags" and system-level tags)
is lost. SVN adds the extra convenience of automatically
applying the tag to the whole tree (and saving a lot of
time to do it:). For that convenience, I lose the ability
to define the granularity of the repo I wanted to tag.

I think we have two competing concepts of "tag":
* One of them is the notion of a tag as a "baseline"
  that automatically refers to all the items (and
  their versions) that make up that baseline

* Another one is the notion that a tag is simply an
  attribute of a file or file-revision, and that it
  may have utility for purposes other than just
  representing a baseline.

BOTH notions are inherently useful. I wish I
didn't have to give up one or the other and
could have both.

-- 
Brad Appleton <brad@bradapp.net> www.bradapp.net
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