A 'check out' is a working copy. No change is made to the repository
(until you commit).
A tag is a repository side thing. It is an 'svn copy' of some folder
(usually trunk) into the tags directory, under a meaningful name (the
'tag').
For example:
svn copy svn://server/repo/trunk svn://server/repo/tags/Release_1_0 -m
"Tag for release 1.0"
Would copy the current trunk into tags/Release_1_0. NOTE: this is the
'trunk' IN the repository (at the time the svn copy command is run)..
It has nothing to do with any checked-out working copy.
You can also create tags of local working copies but that is less
useful. You should read the svn book about tags and branches.
(http://svnbook.org/)
The key to keep in mind is that in Subversion, tags and branches are
just copies. The use of 'tags' and 'branches' are convention:
Subversion does not enforce them. You could call the 'tags' and
'branches' directories anything you want 'foo' and 'bar' for example,
and everything works the same. Note: some clients (TortoiseSVN for
example) prevent commits to existing 'tags', because, by convention,
tags are read-only.
A sub-concept to keep in mind is that copies in Subversion are 'cheap'
-- there's very little overhead for them (speed or space): creating
an 'svn copy' of a branch requires a few bytes, regardless of the size
of the data in the branch.
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Randy Lam
<Randy.Lam_at_wellpointsystems.com> wrote:
> I did a checkout to create a tag but should have done a svn copy allowing me
> to add a message so that Tortoise would pick it up. Is there any easy way
> to add this message to the tag? If this is the wrong forum, I apologize for
> posting a question here so please direct me to the correct place as I
> inherited this position from the SCM admin that left.
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