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

From: Andreas Krey <a.krey_at_gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 20:39:01 +0200

On Wed, 15 May 2013 13:06:52 +0000, Andrew Reedick wrote:
...
> In the Future(tm), Subversion, IMHO, will need to treat branches (and tags) as first class objects because branches and tags are core concepts of modern version control systems.

So what? SVN decided to map them into the directory structure.[1]
If it ever doesn't anymore, it won't be SVN anymore.

Andreas

[1] Whether that is a good decision is an orthogonal question.
    I don't think it was.

-- 
"Totally trivial. Famous last words."
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800
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