Sian January wrote:
On 02/11/06, Geir Magnusson Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Sian January wrote:
> I believe that in CVS when you make a branch there's nothing in it to
> begin with, so if you check out code from the branch it looks the same
> as code in head. Then if a change is made in a file in head and that
> file hasn't been changed in the branch that change is reflected in the
> branch. My understanding is that SVN is based on CVS so I think it
> should work the same way.
Nope.
There is really no such thing as a branch or tag in SVN. It's just a
copy. I think it's the feature I miss most from CVS.
That's very unfortunate. I had assumed that SVN was a superset of CVS as
it's more recent, but obviously I was wrong :-(
it's a shame. I really, really miss that feature.
geir
