On 3/16/07, John Rouillard <rouilj@renesys.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 12:48:04PM -0600, Jeff Smith wrote:
> > On Thursday 08 March 2007 10:45, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > > > I can tell that deep down you know the two are much the same:
> > > > * A [tag] is a tree of files given a name, and selected from
> > > > certain revisions of certain files.
> > > > * A [branch] is a tree of files given a name, and selected from
> > > > certain revisions of certain files.
> > > >
> > > > Then why does cvs track them two different ways? Why to make it
> > > > more complicated, of course ;-)
> > >
> > > No, in cvs, a tag is just a label applied to a file/revision to
> > > make it easy to find a set with that label again and do group
> > > operations on them. Tags never divorce a file from its subsequent
> > > revisions as can happen in subversion.
> >
> > Les, I think you misunderstood me. I agree with you, and what I said
> > *is* correct (except that I could not think of a good way to word
> > it). I atempted to describe the result of "what we do" with tags and
> > branches. You are thinking in terms of "why we do it" and cvs
> > internal workings, but I am saying to forget that for now. Anyway, in
> > that statement I was only explaining why `svn copy` is ideal for
> > tagging. When you say "No" as if I was wrong, either you
> > misunderstand or you are saying that Subversion has no 'tagging'
> > capability just because it only uses 'copy'.
> >
> > I do hope you could clarify what you mean though, that subversion
> > could "divorce a file from it's subsequent revisions". Did you mean
> > somehow it could lose the history, in what situation?
> >
> > I realize it's probably not the question of this thread. I've learned
> > I just can't understand anything without making sure I understand
> > it's precepts.
> >
> > > I think the unanswered question is, starting from a subversion tag
> > > copy, where subsequent work has been done on the corresponding files
> > > in branch/trunk copies, how do you take only the tagged files, but
> > > advance them to HEAD (or some arbitrary rev number)? In cvs, since
> > > all revisions exist in a single versioned file, you can look
> > > 'forward' past the tag. What is the equivalent subversion
> > > operation, especially for tags copied from a working copy where the
> > > tagged revision may not match anything else in the repository?
> >
> > Although I still don't see any problem with doing all this in
> > subversion, I just don't see any example to use. Could someone spell
> > out the problem in steps, and maybe how it is done in cvs?
>
>
> The problem is that tags in subversion create a new namespace that
> ends the file time history at that point. E.G.
>
> new trunk/foo.c rev 1024
> new trunk/foo.c rev 1028
> tag trunk/tag1/foo.c -> tag/tag1/foo.c rev 1030
> new trunk/foo.c rev 1032
>
> you can look at the history for tag/tag1/foo.c and see that it came from
> trunk/foo.c at rev 1028, and IIRC you can see the change at 1024 and
> earlier. What you can't see is the new revision of trunk/foo.c at rev
> 1032 by looking at tag/tag1/foo.c.
>
> However what is tag/tag1/foo.c, it is just a particular stage of life
> of trunk/foo.c, but because of how SVN does tags, it isn't part of the
> timeline of trunk/foo.c at all. It is it's own seperate entity with
> it's own timeline.
>
> Looking at the history of trunk/foo.c doesn't give any indication
> where tag/tag1/foo.c was created. The only way you can tell that there
> was a tag there is to look at the log messages which is error prone to
> say the least and doesn't lend itself well to automation (e.g. drawing
> a tag/branch graph).
>
> So if my question is "has the file tag/tag1/foo.c" changed/been
> updated, then answer is no always. But what I really mean is: has the
> file that tag/tag1/foo.c was the tag of been updated? I have no way to
> tell from looking at tag/tag1/foo.c. I must go back to the base file
> and pick up it's time history. In cvs, tags don't create a seperate
> timeline. They mark a point in the timeline of the original file.
> So my question becomes is there a revision of trunk/foo.c that is
> newer than the tag tag1 of that file.
>
> --
> -- rouilj
I don't think that there is an easy answer to this question in subversion.
In CVS it was very easy to get a list of tags along with their
revision for a file, in SVN this is very difficult.
This is one of the bigger 'regressions' that we have come across in
our recent migration for CVS to subversion.
Roy
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