Re: Equivalent of "cvs rtag -F"

Matthieu Moy wrote:
> Stefan Sperling <stsp@elego.de> writes:
>
>> You don't have to mention "branches" or even "tags" to students
>> working with Subversion.
>>
>> In fact these concepts can be explained easier than in CVS:
>>
>> A tag is a copy of a directory that is (voluntarily) never
>> ever changed again.
>>
>> A branch is a copy of a directory that is changed further
>> after the copy has been made.
>
> The fact that Subversion implements branch with "copy" doesn't mean
> that a branch _is_ a copy. There's no point having branches if you
> don't have merge, and there's very little point having it if you don't
> have switch.
>
>> But why do you even require your students to set a tag?
>
> As I said in my initial message, that allows them to continue working
> _and commititing_ close to the deadline. They can make a commit
> they're not 100% sure about, let other people review and test it, and
> then, after thinking twice, put a tag.
>
>> They could also tell you the revision number of their final
>> version (shown to them at every commit).
>
> That's a really primitive solution. That means we'd have to implement
> something to collect >60 version numbers (we have >200 students by
> group of 4). The revision control system is the tool with which I want
> to manage revisions, I don't want another tool to simulate tagging.
>
>> Or you could check out their project state at deadline time
>> by checking out by date (which would also work in CVS).
>
> This doesn't allow them to commit an "unofficial version" (i.e. a
> version for test, not taken into account by us until the tag).
>
> Well, we might go for this solution, but that would be a regression
> compared to what we used to do with the old CVS.
>
> At the moment, it seems the best solution is "delete; copy", but I
> don't like the window it lets without the tag present.

You can use svnmucc or mucc to do the delete and copy in a single revision:

http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/contrib/client-side/svnmucc

Regards,
Blair

-- 
Blair Zajac, Ph.D.
http://www.orcaware.com/svn/
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