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

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Thu Nov 6 19:10:46 CET 2008

Tres Seaver schrieb:

Georg Brandl wrote:

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. The SVN docs use the term "branch" for this concept: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.0/ch04.html#svn-ch-4-sect-1 And they document that tags are really branches: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.0/ch04s06.html

Quoting from that page:

""" In Subversion, there's no difference between a tag and a branch. Both are just ordinary directories that are created by copying. """

But you're right, it's a question of definitions.

Georg

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