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A proposed Subversion vision and roadmap

Posted Apr 3, 2010 17:38 UTC (Sat) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
Parent article: A proposed Subversion vision and roadmap

I've been using SVN daily for several years and one of the few features I am missing the most is real tags (aka "labels"). I cannot believe I do not see this basic feature in the roadmap.

And no, a directory is not a substitute for a tag:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subversion_%28software%29#Su...>

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Posted Apr 4, 2010 7:47 UTC (Sun) by ikm (subscriber, #493) [Link]

Yeah, me too. But since a tag is basically a revision number, I ended up just writing them down in separate files. Sadly, you have to do all this by yourself. And yes, tags as cheap copies are unusable.

A proposed Subversion vision and roadmap

Posted Apr 4, 2010 12:10 UTC (Sun) by Lionel_Debroux (subscriber, #30014) [Link]

Another vote for efficient, "label"-type, tags.

I've been working on two sizeable SVN repositories through git-svn for a couple years, thereby enjoying an efficiently-stored mirror of the whole revision history, fast disconnected mode operation, history rewriting, and other Git features, while not interfering with the choice to keep using the historical SVN repository.
For both of those repositories, the directory trees under /tags and /branches, that Git recreated to match the SVN semantics, take up hundreds of megabytes...