RE: updating a tag

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Crosta [mailto:dcrosta@gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 3:45 PM
> To: users@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: updating a tag
>
> is there a simple idiom to use for updating a tag which already exists
> to reflect the current contents of a working copy or of the /trunk
> part of the repository? if you just reissue the svn cp command, it
> will create a subdirectory of the tag directory (i found out the hard
> way), and deleting and re-copying the tag causes 2 revisions rather
> than 1. is there some idiom for ... basically updating a tag or branch
> to the current contents of the trunk?
>

In theory, tags shouldn't be modified once created.

If you need to update a tag, you can either treat like a branch and just
update it normally. 'svn co svn://.../some_tag, svn commit'

Or you can recreate the tag, by deleting the tag and then creating a new
tag with the same name. This is probably the better approach for your
case. (Sounds like you want a 'floating label.')
If you need to reference the previous tags, then you can rename or move
the tag instead of deleting it. Otherwise you'll need to read up on peg
branches to access previously deleted tags.

If you don't want to delete/rm/mv the tag, then you'll need to merge the
trunk to the tag. You'll need a script to automatically accept the
trunk's version in case of merge conflicts (not that there should be
any) by copying foo.java.right-r123 to foo.java.

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Received on Fri Sep 29 21:59:36 2006