> From: discuss-boun...@blu.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@blu.org] On Behalf > Of Tom Metro > > Someone else has addressed this. SVN provides some raw functionality by > which developers can implement tagging by convention. The big down side > to SVN tags is that the VCS doesn't prohibit you from turning a tag into > a branch - or in other words, making modifications to a tagged revision. > Doing so would generally be considered bad practice, however I've never > seen a developer violate the conventions in the 10 years I've been using > SVN.
More correctly, "doesn't automatically make the tagged directory read-only." I know, in organizations that I support on svn, we have a release process. All the engineers sync up, somebody runs regressions, and if all the tests pass, then we tag that release. I make the tagged directory read-only. Later, if we ever need to respin, then we fork a branch from the tag. Thus leaving the tag read-only, and continuing to modify the branch. Which will later produce another tag. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
