On Jul 9, 2010, at 11:49, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 7/9/2010 11:04 AM, Eramo, Mark wrote: >> >> 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.
You may also want to read the chapter in the Subversion book for CVS users http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.forcvs.html Especially: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.forcvs.branches-and-tags.html
