On 7/9/2010 11:04 AM, Eramo, Mark wrote:
I have a question.
In CVS, if I made changes to some files in the trunk, I could promote
those into a specific tag. Is it possible to do the same in SVN?
I have a few files in the trunk that I want to promote to an existing
tag without creating a new tag. Just curious if this is possible and how
it is done.
The concept of a tag is somewhat different between cvs and subversion so
you probably want to reconsider what you are trying to accomplish at a
higher level. In cvs a tag is basically a label associated with a
file/revision and you need them to group a set together because there is
no other way to do it. In subversion a tag is a 'cheap' copy that is
generally only needed to give a human-friendly name instead remembering
the path/revision where it was copied from. You can assemble grouping
that don't appear elsewhere into tags, but by convention they normally
aren't updated. So for your last question about modifying an existing
tag, yes it is possible but it is not the usual way to do things. Tags
are usually snapshot copies that aren't modified after creation.
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Les Mikesell
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