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Re: How to discover which files are tagged or branced in a hook script?

From: Andreas Krey <a.krey_at_gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 08:10:38 +0100

On Mon, 18 Dec 2017 00:35:29 +0000, Bo Berglund wrote:
...
> I have a hard time getting to understand this...
> Do you mean that using "trunk", "branches" and "tags" as directories
> is entirely voluntary?

Exactly.

> Does this also mean that files inside a
> tags/something directory can be modified and committed, thus changing
> the content of the tag?

Exactly. Since svn doesn't even know the concept of a 'tag' and its
preferred writeonce property, accidentally doing an 'svn cp trunk tags/1.0'
twice has interesting consequences.

Andreas

-- 
"Totally trivial. Famous last words."
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800
Received on 2017-12-18 08:10:52 CET

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