[development] SVN vs. CVS? (was re: CVS branch work best practices?)

Jakob Petsovits jpetso at gmx.at
Mon Feb 26 09:44:32 UTC 2007


On Monday, 26. February 2007, Jakob Petsovits wrote:
> There is no such thing as an "svn tag" operation. SVN tags are plain copies
> from trunk (=HEAD) or from a branch, the only difference to branches is
> that they are not touched anymore after creation (and that they usually
> reside in tags/ instead of branches/). By itself, SVN doesn't distinguish
> at all between trunk, branches and tags.

Er, I forgot the reference for the interested:
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn-book.html#svn.branchmerge.tags

Regards,
  j


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