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Re: Subversion First-class Labels

From: Erik Huelsmann <ehuels_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:04:39 +0200

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 7:50 PM, Joe Bell <joe.bell_at_prodeasystems.com> wrote:
> I was browsing the web looking for an answer to the question as to whether
> first-class labels were going to be a planned addition to Subversion, but
> the best I could come up with was a lengthy discussion on SVN DEV back in
> 2005. I'm curious as to whether anyone knows where this proposal is or is
> headed?

I don't think there's been a serious follow-up.

>
> By first-class labels I mean labels analogous to Clearcase, you create a
> label and then apply it to multiple elements (files, directories), etc. to
> provide a mnemonic name for a given configuration of files.

Subversion can do this with tags: a tag can consist of any combination
of files in the repository and locally modified files.

HTH,

Erik.

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