Anthony Metcalf wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 11:11:24 -0400
> "David F. Newman" <dnewman@epnet.com> wrote:
>
>
>>> With your approach there NO difference between TAG and BRANCH. All
>>>that is the COPY. One copy, called TAG we _promise_ do not change. And
>>>that's why it is a TAG. But nothing can prevent me from modifying this
>>>COPY. So, some "bad" developer CAN change the TAG.
>>
>>One can force a read-only policy on tags by making the /tags directory
>>read-only to everyone except the release coordinator using
>>mod_authz_svn. Then a bad developer can't change tags.
>
>
> Then what if someone gets the "release-co-ordinator's" password?
>
> I tend to agree that subversion doesn't support tags. It supports copying, and with a little effort you can make it look like it supports tags. It does not support, out of the box, a cammand like
>
> svn tag or svn tag -rN, which then cannot be altered from within subversion, by anyone.
>
> At least, in my opinion, thats what "tags" mean.
>
> <disclaimers>
> 1) I know all this in effect is, is putting a specific name on a -rN. Isn't that the idea?
> 2) Subversion is the first version control system I've ever used. I don't know how it works in other systems, I am simply saying what I think of as tagging for a release, from the point of view of what I will want to do in the future with things in my repo's.
> </disclaimers>
I think that a fair summary of any CVS/SVN comparison is that (in spite
of its claims) SVN is NOT a replacement for CVS. It is however a set of
primitive operations on top of which a CVS replacement could be built.
Peter
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