Re: Subversion Doesn't Have Branches aka Crossing the Streams aka Branches as First Class Objects?

On 11.05.2013 19:25, Zé wrote:
> On 05/09/2013 09:35 PM, Branko ÄŒibej wrote:
>> The real problem here is that Subversion does not treat/renames/ as
>> atomic operations.
>
> I think that the real problem here is that Subversion doesn't support
> branches. The fact is that moving or copying a file or directory
> around is not the semantical equivalent of creating a branch.
> Therefore, if the same operation is used to perform both then one will
> not be supported as well as it could be.

I'll take the bait and ask you for the definition of the semantics of a
"branch".

-- Brane

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Branko ÄŒibej
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