Re: Safely creating a tag/branch?

Dale Worley wrote:

> 1. Do "svn ls https://.../tags" to determine the next available tag number.
>
> 2. Do "svn copy https://.../trunk https://.../tags/tag-N" to create the tag
> at rev R. If it fails, you are the third (or later) person to attempt to
> create tag-N, and should return to step 1.
>
> 3. Examine "svn log -r R https://.../tags" to see if what was created was
> tags/tag-N or tags/tag-N/trunk. If the former, exit with success. If the
> latter:
>
> 4. Do "svn delete https://.../tags/tag-N/trunk" to get rid of the mistake,
> and return to step 1.
>
> Or something like that.

And what if in between 2 and 4 the other person checks out a working copy of
tag-N?

Albert

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Received on Tue Aug 16 17:44:08 2005