Re: Are complex tags bad, evil, from hell?

Reinhard Brandstädter wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 November 2006 15:30, Nikki Locke wrote:
>
> > How do you make a tag GONE? Surely the whole point of a revision control
> > system is that nothing is ever gone?
>
> svndumpfilter might be a solution. But how to make a tag gone is out of scope
> here. I wanted to stress that it's impossible to create the "same" tag (or a
> tag with exactly the same content) again if you can't look closely at the
> complex-tag.
> If you don't tag at all (which no-one does!) you could still write down the
> exact revision number on trunk that reflects a stable version in your
> project-management papers and will still be able to recreate the version
> until forever.

I'm afraid I've lost the plot here.

You complain that you can't recreate the contents of a tag if it's gone.

I say tags never go away in this fashion.

You say you can hack the database using svndumpfilter to get rid of a tag.

Well, if you allow hacking the database, then any alternative solution you might
propose is subject to the same difficulty. Make a branch instead, then the
branch might have GONE in the same way, and you have the same problem.

So what point are you trying to make here?

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Nikki Locke, Trumphurst Ltd.      PC & Unix consultancy & programming
http://www.trumphurst.com/
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