RE: Future support to real tags and real branches?

Hi all,

sorry for the late reply. I am impressed by the amount of insightful answers to my question!

I'd like to apologize for being initially lazy, I did some google search and I found answers referring versions of SVN previous to 1.5, so no merge or --reintegrate or --record-only were mentioned. These options and mergeinfo are improvements that makes quite easier to play with branches.

Yet, the fact that tags and branches are actually "simulated" in SVN on the top of copies over the file system, continue to give me minor problems. For example, I usually work with Eclipse/Subclipse, which allows me to declare "this copy is tag X".

However such information is lost if I checkout a branch and I create another Eclipse project with it (cause it's not information managed natively by SVN).

Another problem is that it seems it is often hard to show a revision tree, i.e.: the history tree of project/, with tags reported, as well as branch paths attached to branching points. This is possible in Subclipse, but not when its internal information about tags and branches are lost the way said above. I think the main reasons of these problems is due to the fact that SVN sees project/ as just the root of trunk/tags/branches, and not as a whole project.

Anyway, given the new features of the 1.5> versions, I think I can survive with the above issues. I am sorry for not having discovered them before, I quite deserve a RTFM for that! :-)

Thank you all for the replies.

Marco.

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Received on 2009-12-03 16:25:40 CET