RE: feature request: svn revision alias

> There have been some requests for this before. It's not out of the
> question, but it's complicated. For example, we already have some
> symbolic revision names ("HEAD", "PREV", etc), and these would have to
> become special reserved labels, since they can already be used where a
> revision number would normally be used. But then we have to predict
> all future special labels, which is hard to do.
>
> Aside from "some people aren't used to it", I've not seen any
> convincing disadvantages demonstrated for just using 'svn copy' to
> create a tag, I have to admit. I'm keeping an open mind, but if we're
> going to extend Subversion's interface, it should be because of a
> convincing advantage.

I swear I saw a dev agree this was a valid use case. I wonder if I can
dig it up...

Of course copies-as-tags fails in the "what tags apply to this file?"
scenario.

Eric

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