Re: Re: Using Tag methodology

"David Weintraub" <qazwart_at_gmail.com> wrote on 11/17/2008 03:06:25 PM:
...
> In most revision control software a label "APPROVED_QA" would not tell
> you what was the previous revision that was approved for QA or what
> the difference is between this QA revision and the last, or when this
> revision was approved for QA. By using Subversion and getting rid of
> floating labels, you no longer have this problem.

One of the "nice" things about floating labels is that I know
"APPROVED_QA" is always the latest one, I don't need to manually
search "tags/QA/..." for the "last" one...

(And yes, you could have an "APPROVED_QA" tag that is deleted and
 recreated every time a -xxx one is created, but that is a pain.)

This concept is really no different than "HEAD" is today, just
with greater flexibility.

Most other systems also have some way to query the label history,
so label moving isn't a major tracking problem as you
alluded to.

With Subversion it is also quite difficult to see who else
is using the same (or other versions) of the same shared
file. Most CM systems make this trivial...

Kevin R.
Received on 2008-11-18 00:27:15 CET