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Re: Mnemomic names for revisions

From: Tim Hill <tim_at_realmsys.com>
Date: 2005-05-12 22:51:31 CEST

Exactly! I'm getting the impression that the term "label" has some
semantic baggage here, and this is the root of some of the issues.

I, for one, have never seen a label as anything more than a symbolic
name for a revision that *cannot* be changed -- it's set at commit time
(e.g. as a --label flag on svn commit) and that's the end of it, apart
from the ability to use the label again in "--revision" switches.

Now, applying the 80:20 rule, I feel this gives most of what people need
without a massive re-design/development effort.

--Tim

Brad Appleton wrote:

> I think of a mnemonic name for a revision as something different from
> the sort of first-class label some are speaking of (one that possibly
> requires versioning of the configuration of the label, in order to be
> "TimeSafe").
>
> The mnenomic is simply an alias. I could possibly even define more
> than one for the same global revnum (provided the name isnt already in
> use). The purpose isnt to define the content of the configuration
> corresponding to the revnum, the purpose is to be able to use a
> meaningful, memorable name for a state of the codebase that is
> automatically stored+tracked by the system anytime I checkin.
>
> With "tags" or "labels" as most tools implement them, the purpose IS
> to define the content of a configuration of the system that is
> otherwise NOT auto-captured, *and* to associate it with a meaningful
> name. I think there is a use for that as a separate thing in SVN, and
> that "copies" with some read-only flag set serve that purpose just fine.
>
> A traditional "label" manually creates a named configuration.
> A revision alias simply associates a name with an autogenerated
> id/address for an automatically created+stored configuration.
>
> I think they are different things, just like the list of symbol names
> in a symbol-table is different from the actual data/memory values that
> are referenced by the addresses that the "symbols" map to.

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