Can I suggest that the next step up from this is: "Working man's
labels" or WML would be on a per-file basis, so that rev 3 of files A,
B, and C would hold a label, but not files D, E and F? (this would
probably naturally include the possibility of having the same label on
a different rev of a different file, I can't see an implementation
that would include the former and not the latter) Possibly replace
"file" with "folder" in that description, although I'd prefer not to.
So each file would have a property which is a list of labels and which
revision they apply to. (as someone suggested previously) This
should be versioned so that a label can be re-pointed at a different
rev should it be necessary, and the history of these changes can be
retrieved.
Again, any svn command that accepts a rev# would accept a label name,
and would apply the command to the rev of each file that matches that
label name. (clearly you can't commit to a label, just as you can't
commit to a non-HEAD revision)
It may be nice to add a log option to review the history of a certain
label, with items such as "applied to files", "changed revision",
"label text edited", "removed from files"
I'm not sure (this would be an implementation decision) whether this
makes more sense stored on each file, or stored on the repo as a
whole, with a list of labels and the files that have each label
applied to them.
Has anyone got any desired label functionality that doesn't fit this model?
Richard.
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