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Re: Move from CVSNT to SVN?

From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon_at_freemail.ru>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:08:40 +0400

Greetings, Les Mikesell!

> You may need to adjust your workflow concepts a bit. In CVS, you would
> normally use tags to tie a set of revisions together so you can
> reproduce the state of a workspace - and in cvs tags are like labels
> that you can float around. In subversion, tags are like snapshot
> copies and normally are never revised so if your workflow depends on
> floating a tag name so you can embed it in scripts you may have to
> change a few things.

I'd like to add that this concept of "floating tags" is what Subversion has in
mind when you say "revision".
Each revision consist of a complete, functional state of the project....
ideally.

--
WBR,
 Andrey Repin (anrdaemon_at_freemail.ru) 10.09.2009, <15:06>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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