[Python-Dev] Looking for VCS usage scenarios (original) (raw)

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Thu Nov 6 09:40:50 CET 2008

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.

In this context it is not surprising that there is no separate branch or tag concept. I think the reason is that CVS had branches and tags as separate concepts and it must have been relatively painful to use them.

cheers, Georg

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