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Re: feature request: svn revision alias

From: Karl Fogel <kfogel_at_red-bean.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:58:23 -0500

"Reedick, Andrew" <jr9445_at_ATT.COM> writes:
> "what tags apply to this file?" is the same as asking what baselines
> (aka tags) is the file in. In SVN you can search the baselines (tag
> directories) for the file, or you use merging to make sure the file gets
> into the various baselines/tags in the first place.
>
> Granted, searching over a whole bunch of SVN tag directories isn't as
> efficient as looking at the tags on an individual file. However, the
> whole reason we've been able to do that in other RCS like systems, is
> because RCS stored all information about a file on a per file basis,
> which made it grossly inefficient to manipulate groups of files or to
> think about all the files as a whole.

What you say is true, but still it would be nice if people had an
efficient way to ask "What tags is this particular version of this
file in?" The fact that Subversion doesn't offer a clean way to do
this is a deficiency that we should rectify someday, IMHO. Just
because we version trees doesn't mean we should forget about files :-).

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