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> From: John Calcote [mailto:jcalcote@novell.com]
>
> In all the arguing I've seen on this and the dev list regarding why
> tags should NOT be used as simple aliases for revision
> numbers in SVN, I
> still have yet to see a truly valid reason for this point of view.
In CVS or ClearCase tags/labels were applied to individual
files. Thus you could move the label/tag on a file by file basis. Yes,
tags/labels should be unchangable, but every so often there's a really
good reason to tweak the label/tag to fix something.
Being able to _add_ files to a label is useful: label the code,
pull by label, build, and then check-in the build output and apply the
label.
However, Subversion tags are applied to revisions and revisions
represent a set of files. If a svn tag was an traditional alias/label,
then there would be no way to modify or add files to a tag. Updating a
tag would require changing a revision after the initial commit.
However, since a svn tag is a branch, you can modify the tag branch to
fix or add files to the tag.
It boils down to:
A lot of concepts that work well for version control systems
that operate on a file-by-file paradigm, are no longer valid (or work
differently) with Subversion's change-set (revisions) approach.
So far I've seen this file-by-file versus change-set paradigm
change trip up folks in regards to merging, having one global version
number, version trees, and now, tagging.
> On the other hand, I hear time and time again about the
> frustration the
> people experience with not being able to use tags as aliases in SVN.
>
> then the least we can do is provide a brand
> new feature called "names" or something.
How about "labels"?
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Received on Wed Aug 16 21:28:11 2006