Tres Seaver schrieb: > Georg Brandl wrote: >> Stephen J. Turnbull schrieb: >>> Tres Seaver writes: >>> >>> > svn doesn't have any true tags, AFAIK: everything is a branch. >>> >>> Yow! I couldn't have imagined that would be true. And didn't.... > >> It's not exactly true either. svn doesn't have either tags or branches, >> it has only a single (directory) tree per repository, of which individual >> subdirectories can be checked out individually. This is the root of the >> usual first step in creating a SVN repo: make "branches", "trunk" and >> "tags" subdirs. > > The SVN docs use the term "branch" for this concept: > > http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.0/ch04.html#svn-ch-4-sect-1 > > And they document that tags are really branches: > > http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.0/ch04s06.html
Quoting from that page: """ In Subversion, there's no difference between a tag and a branch. Both are just ordinary directories that are created by copying. """ But you're right, it's a question of definitions. Georg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
