On Sat, 18 May 2013 17:24:33 +0000, Zé wrote: ... > Compared to how other SCM systems handle tags, subversion also doesn't > have tags as a separate concept. Subversion provides a way to pinpoint > each commit objectively and unambiguously by specifying specific > revisions.
Not even that. You can easily modify the same file in multiple branches in the same commit. :-) ... > Let's put it this way: if that was actually a tag then it could also be > argued that any file system supports branching/tagging. Not quite, the file system does not store ancestry information on the new partial tree. But svn's refusal to make tags write-protected by default is the larger issue here. Andreas -- "Totally trivial. Famous last words." From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800
