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Re: I miss tags

From: Max Bowsher <maxb_at_ukf.net>
Date: 2004-09-24 23:34:35 CEST

Sean Laurent wrote:
> Wow. My last post generated some interesting responses... *laugh*
> Unfortunately, it seems I didn't do a good job explaining myself.
> However,
> let me preface all this with a note... I'm not a Subversion newbie. In
> fact,
> I've been on board since Subversion 0.21, back in April of 2003. I'm well
> acquainted with the "Subversion Way" of doing things and, frankly, I'm a
> huge
> fan.
>
> That said, I'm amazed (and somewhat confused by) by how opposed people are
> to
> the concept of labels. I think Brad Appleton said it best when he wrote:

It's not opposition, really. Just that it has not been clearly explained
what revision labels would allow you to do that tag-copies do not.

...

> If there were support for this idea, I'd be willing to look at tackling
> it.

If you can write up something that explains a use case for revision labels,
which tag-copies cannot satisfy, then I would be very interested to read it.

Max.

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