move a tag?

[Jim Correia <ji...@pobox.com>]

svn newbie question...

I've read the docs about how tags conceptually differ from cvs. I'm 
coming from the cvs/p4 world where if we needed to move/adjust a tag or 
label, you either would do

cvs tag -F ...

or in p4, edit the label then do a labelsync

I realize that in svn a tag is just a copy:

$ svn copy http://svn.example.com/repos/trunk/calc \
            http://svn.example.com/repos/tags/calc/release-1.0 \
       -m "Tagging the 1.0 release of the 'calc' project."

Committed revision 351.

Suppose if after I made the release-1.0 tag, but before the actual 
release, a bug was fixed. I want to "move" the tag so that it 
represents revision 354 now.

What is the right way to do this?

Remove the tag, and make a new copy?

Merge the changes into the tag? (Does this answer change if you use the 
access control scripts mentioned in the book?)

Define a new tag? (Is this conceptually what the design anticipates in 
this situation?)

Something else?

Thanks,
Jim


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Re: move a tag?

[Ben Collins-Sussman <su...@collab.net>]

On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 13:46, Jim Correia wrote:

> Suppose if after I made the release-1.0 tag, but before the actual 
> release, a bug was fixed. I want to "move" the tag so that it 
> represents revision 354 now.
> 
> What is the right way to do this?

You can do whatever you want.  If it was never released, the easiest
solution might be:

$ svn mv TagURL TempBranchURL

#.... modify the TempBranch however you want, via merging, or whatever.

$ svn mv TempBranchURL TagURL.


I mean, you *could* commit to the TagURL.  But then you're not really
treating it like a tag, are you?  :-)



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