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Re: Mnemomic names for revisions

From: Tim Hill <tim_at_realmsys.com>
Date: 2005-05-05 22:36:13 CEST

Well, I have not been assuming that -- why shouldn't a label be a
property on a folder?

And besides, the same argument could be applied to the global revision
numbers themselves -- yet everyone seems to cope with this quite well.

Also, in many cases labels that cross projects are very useful --
particularly when a released product is compsed fomr many different
projects.

--Tim

Gerco Ballintijn wrote:

> David Gómez wrote:
>
>> Hi Gerco ;),
>>
>> On May 04 at 02:33:19, Gerco Ballintijn wrote:
>>
>>>> It's not really a BIG deal, but I would rather avoid having to
>>>> treat some parts of the tree as serving that sort of special
>>>> purpose and not as part of the organizational structure of my data.
>>>>
>>> This seems to be the main reason people want to have revision labels.
>>> They feel the workspace root *should* be the same as the repository
>>> root.
>>> This desire is however the opposite of the design choice chosen for
>>> the Subversion filesystem.
>>>
>>
>> And that's design is right for branches, but IMHO is wrong for tags.
>>
>
> This notion and use seems to rest strongly on a
> one-project-per-repository assumption.
>
> If you have a repository with multiple projects/modules, you
> invariably want
> to tag/label specific projects. However, with revision labels all
> projects
> share all the labels in the repository, leading to same kind of name
> clashes
> and confusion you have with CVS tags, except worse since now even
> unrelated
> projects in the repository share labels.
>
> So, before you know it, there will be hierarchical revision labels for
> different projects within the repository or per-project revision labels,
> and we're basically back where we started, except with convoluted naming
> strategy.
>
> Gerco.
>
>
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