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Re: Regarding Tagging in subversion.

From: Johan Appelgren <johan.appelgren_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2006-01-12 17:20:55 CET

On 1/12/06, Vivek Taparia <vivek.taparia@mindteck.com> wrote:

>
>
> Hi,
>
> This is regarding tagging in subversion.
>
> If I tag it ,subversion simply stores the snapshot of the entire directory
> in the TAG directory with that name.
>
> Which occupies a lot of space, is their any other way to just keep the
> delta of changes in the database with the name of tag, so we can use it more
> effectively.
>

Copies in Subversion does not mean the data is actually duplicated in the
repository. Read the box labled "Cheap Copies" in "Creating a Branch" [1]
part of the subversion book.

/Johan

[1] <http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/svn-book.html#svn-ch-4-sect-2.1>
Received on Thu Jan 12 19:51:02 2006

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