[GitHub] [iceberg] rdblue commented on issue #2481: Allow snapshotting iceberg table (create new table based on certain Iceberg snapshot)

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rdblue commented on issue #2481:
URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/issues/2481#issuecomment-846299193


   For this use case, we may want to consider adding git-like branches and tags instead. I think it would be cleaner to branch and then update the branch. Then you'd be able to stay within a table and reuse data files more cleanly. Sharing files across independent tables has a lot of problems.
   
   That would also have a cleaner syntax: `catalog.db.table.branch`. That would prevent us from using some branch names, like `files` but I think overall it would be okay.


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