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Tagging in svn?
I have a question I would like to see resolved here; one of my MAJOR complaints in CVS is the inability to tag based on our internal naming conventions. For example, suppose we have a release we are labeling 10.20.0. In CVS, I am unable to use a "." in the tag, so I am forced to employ an unwieldy 10_20_0 or something similar, then explain to the "suits" why the release number does not match the internal docs.
Will Subversion correct this deficiency?
Mark Jaffe
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Re: Tagging in svn?
Posted by John Szakmeister <jo...@szakmeister.net>.
On Tuesday 12 August 2003 19:53, Mark Jaffe wrote:
> I have a question I would like to see resolved here; one of my MAJOR
> complaints in CVS is the inability to tag based on our internal naming
> conventions. For example, suppose we have a release we are labeling
> 10.20.0. In CVS, I am unable to use a "." in the tag, so I am forced to
> employ an unwieldy 10_20_0 or something similar, then explain to the
> "suits" why the release number does not match the internal docs.
Subversion performs tagging differently than CVS. It's actually a cheap copy
of the trunk copied into a 'tags' directory or something similar (it's up to
you to define your convention). As long as it's a valid file/directory name,
you can choose it to be whatever you like.
You can read more about this in the book at svnbook.red-bean.com
-John
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Re: Tagging in svn?
Posted by David Summers <da...@summersoft.fay.ar.us>.
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Mark Jaffe wrote:
> I have a question I would like to see resolved here; one of my MAJOR complaints in CVS is the inability to tag based on our internal naming conventions. For example, suppose we have a release we are labeling 10.20.0. In CVS, I am unable to use a "." in the tag, so I am forced to employ an unwieldy 10_20_0 or something similar, then explain to the "suits" why the release number does not match the internal docs.
>
> Will Subversion correct this deficiency?
>
Yes, in Subversion, a tag is just a directory in the repository that you
can call anything you want (as long as it meets normal file system file
name restrictions).
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