Andy Peters wrote:
> On Nov 14, 2006, at 2:47 PM, Joseph Mocker wrote:
> I guess the question is why would you want or need to check out the
> entire project? Check out the trunk if you're working on the trunk.
> Check out a branch if you're working on a branch.
I should have clarified more that for developers who are used to working
in CVS where you can checkout an entire project w/o such a penalty, its
a change in the way they work.
>
>> That way when I create a tag, I can just "cd project; mkdir tags;
>> svn add tags; svn copy trunk tags/tagname". Straight forward, just
>> not a single operation, and the more operations, the more
>> possibility to foobar something.
>
>
> That's WAAAY too complicated! I do something similar and easier,
> without checking out the entire project (all branches, all tags, plus
> the trunk). I just create the tag directly on the server.
>
> $ cd workingcopyoftrunk
> $ svn copy . svn://server/project1/tags/newtag
>
> Simple, eh?
>
yes, I should have been more verbose in my previous mail in which I was
aware of issuing a copy command against two URLs. It its nice and quick.
However, Subversion didn't like me trying to copy to
svn://server/project1/tags/newtag if /projec1/tags didn't exist first.
--joe
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Received on Wed Nov 15 20:35:08 2006