On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 09:12:54PM -0800, Tracy R Reed wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Serge Rey wrote: > > with svn my reaction has been the opposite. "what do you mean i simply > > create > > a new directory and copy the files in there to mark/tag that release? isn't > > that kind of inefficient?!". followed not so closely by, "well, yeah of > > course > > putting all the files for a snapshot in one directory makes sense". > > Inefficient in terms of disk space? Because it isn't really making a copy.
right - it isn't making a copy, and that is one the beauties of a versioning system. i think someone who has not used a versioning system before would be more at home the the svn model than the cvs model because it appears to just make another copy of the files in a separate directory for "safe keeping". i guess one way to think of a svn tag (i.e. directory) is that it takes the "cvs" tags and puts them in one directory. - imposes some hierarchy on otherwise flat-wide label model in cvs. (but i'm probably revealing my ignorance of the underlying model here). -- Serge Rey http://regal.sdsu.edu/~serge A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
