Re: tagging just a few files

Quoting from Benjamin Pflugmann's mail on Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 10:33:27PM +0100:
> You can prepare a working copy to represent what you want to be tagged
> and then tag the working copy. That should handle both cases, a) and
> b) fine. Would that work for you?

...

> Done. You can either throught the working copy away or get back a full
> working copy by svn update. If you repeat the same procedure in order
> to tag REPOS/tags/pkg1-v101, then
>
> svn diff $REPOS/tags/pkg1-v100 $REPOS/tags/pkg1-v101
>
> should do what you expect (so long as I understood correctly what you
> expect).

Yes, you have understood my problem correctly. If you do look at
Method 3 in my original mail,

<http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=users&msgNo=21572>

it is similar to the method you have described. The only difference is
that it does a "svn copy" first and then "svn rm" on the tag
directory. And my original question was:

Is it possible to have an option like "--parents" to "svn copy" to
make tagging of some files easier?

Why should I do tagging in a roundabout way when this one option is
going to solve all my problems. With your solution, per package, I
will have to:

1) checkout the repository,
2) figure out what files and directories to remove,
3) remove them,
4) tag the remaining.

This obviously is a sub-optimal (and idiotic, IMO) way of tagging
files. Not to mention, network-intensive. And error-prone, if I don't
figure it out right!

> Of course, splitting up the packages in pkg1, pkg2 and pkg-common
> might be the better long-term solution.

Each individual package is meant to be compiled independently.

-- 
Sunil Shetye.
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