On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Gary Hallmark <gary.hallm...@oracle.com>wrote:
> All examples I have seen for tagging use svn copy (or svncopy -tag) to > create a tag. If I want to make sure nobody can change the tag, I guess I > could write a commit hook. But couldn't I use a versioned external > definition to create the tag instead of svn copy? Seems this would better > enforce that nobody can change the tag, since it isn't a copy at all. One > downside would be that if the tag contains unversioned externals, I would > not be able to pin them down, but I don't plan to have unversioned > externals. Are there any other downsides? > > Example: > trunk/ > tags/ > X -r123 ^trunk version_1.0 > > Cheers, > Gary > The primary downside to this that I see, is that you won't be able to address a tag via URL (e.g. for the purpose of creating a branch), because the tags' paths will only exist in a working copy, and you probably don't want to checkout all of /tags.
