Assigning version ID's to individual file revisions

I am investigating moving our existing revision control system, which is
based on RCS, to subversion, but am having trouble seeing how to implement
assigning our own revision ID's to files as they are revised. Under RCS,
we do this by assigning a tag, so that when a new version of file foo.c is
checked in, it receives a tag such as FOO_C-00-03, and this tag is used to
uniquely refer it. The subversion concept of tags as branches doesn't seem
to lend itself to this. If I understand correctly, each time a file is
revised, a copy would have to be made of that file only to a new location in
the repository. This seems to be very awkward for this purpose.

I have also looked at using properties for this purpose, but since there
doesn't seem to be a way of extracting the revision of a file whose
property x = y, this doesn't look like it will work either.

Can anyone suggest how to go about doing this?

- Will

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Received on Wed Apr 12 03:26:23 2006