2011/11/15 sebb <seb...@gmail.com>: >>> >>> It's fine to create and drop tags which won't ever be used for a vote. >>> >>> But tags that are used as RC tags should be immutable. >>> >>> It's better *never* to reuse an RC tag, as a recreated tag can still >>> cause confusion later on. >> >> I'm not understanding the reasoning here. Where is the confusion in a >> recreated tag? > > If the RC is renamed (rather than copied) when creating the final tag, > it may be necessary to use SVN history to find out which revision was > used in the final tag. > By the time the final tag is created, trunk will have moved on. SVN > does not record the revision of the RC tag used to create the final > tag. >
Everything is known and recorded. It is better to use proper svn client, but something is visible in viewvc as well. There is "peg revision" concept in Svn, or "sticky revision" in viewvc. For example, looking at "commons-codec-1.5" tag: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/commons/proper/codec/tags/commons-codec-1.5/ Revision comment is "r1086786 Copy Commons Codec 1.5-RC1 tag to 1.5." So you can guess that it used "1.5-RC1" that existed at r1086785. Typing "1086785" into "sticky revision" field, you can see the tags directory that existed in r1086785: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/commons/proper/codec/tags/?pathrev=1086785 Also, looking at r1086786 itself: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1086786 it explicitly says: "(Copied from commons/proper/codec/tags/commons-codec-1.5-RC1, r1086785)" Best regards, Konstantin Kolinko --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
