> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phyrefly [mailto:phyrefly.phyre@gmail.com]
> Sent: Dienstag, 21. November 2006 14:09
> To: Robert Graf-Waczenski
> Subject: Re: RE: Re: Is label support in future release?
>
>
> > Don't throw the word "branch" into this discussion! The issue at
> > hand evolves around SVN's notion of "tagging" compared with
> > various levels of a yet-to-be-defined support for labels,
> > revision aliases, revision indexes or whatver else they have
> > been called.
> >
> > I'm a technical user and our project uses branches to maintain
> > separate development lines of a software product. We *don't*
> > want to get rid of using branches! But still we would benefit
> > from label support in SVN (in our case: from trivial repo-wide
> > revision aliases, we don't need the more complex variants that
> > others have described and which arguably overlap with what
> > the SVN devs intended with the "tag" concept.)
>
> Nobody's ever mentioned getting rid of branches or tags (which are
> really just branches with a different name on them). We are proposing
> a new feature, NOT a replacement of one feature with another. Tags
> have their place, but so do labels (or this is the argument we're
> putting forward, anyway).
Here's what i was referring to:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Scott Pritchett [mailto:scott.pritchett@amtrak.co.uk]
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 11:41 AM
> > To: users@subversion.tigris.org
> > Subject: RE: Re: Is label support in future release?
> >
[snip]
> [snip] This discussion has the precept
> that users do not want to branch off to another folder location,
> but want to replace that functionality with a labelling feature
> set which is easier to use.
Scott *did* talk about the discussion being about replacing the
branching functionality and I was clarifying this.
(Maybe i should have quoted his statement better in my posting).
Robert
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