Re: UNS: Re: Subversion Doesn't Have Branches aka Crossing the Streams aka Branches as First Class Objects?

2013-05-19 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Zé jose.pas...@gmx.com wrote: Besides that, from my understanding filesystems do provide something which could be argued as support for branches and tags because branches are simply just work on something based on something other, which is implemented as

Re: UNS: Re: Subversion Doesn't Have Branches aka Crossing the Streams aka Branches as First Class Objects?

2013-05-18 Thread
On 05/13/2013 06:23 PM, Andreas Krey wrote: No, the basic difference is that VCS operating on the whole tree can only have branches (and thus merge info) on the whole tree either, so you*can't* go like subversion does and map branches into the tree and need to have them (and tags) as a separate

Re: UNS: Re: Subversion Doesn't Have Branches aka Crossing the Streams aka Branches as First Class Objects?

2013-05-18 Thread Thorsten Schöning
Guten Tag Zé, am Samstag, 18. Mai 2013 um 18:24 schrieben Sie: The only difference between subversion and other SCM systems is that other systems offer support for labeling and adding useful info to those revisions, while Subversion doesn't. Which useful info besides the name, and always

Re: UNS: Re: Subversion Doesn't Have Branches aka Crossing the Streams aka Branches as First Class Objects?

2013-05-18 Thread Daniel Shahaf
On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 07:33:10PM +0200, Thorsten Schöning wrote: ... Let's put it this way: if that was actually a tag then it could also be argued that any file system supports branching/tagging. You ignore the versioning part of Subversion and that it guarantees the state/history of

Re: UNS: Re: Subversion Doesn't Have Branches aka Crossing the Streams aka Branches as First Class Objects?

2013-05-13 Thread Andreas Krey
On Mon, 13 May 2013 11:32:13 +, Les Mikesell wrote: ... Maybe it is just my misconception, but I've always thought of the difference between svn and git as being that svn conceptually tracks complete revisions although sometimes it might generate or store differences for some operations or

Re: UNS: Re: Subversion Doesn't Have Branches aka Crossing the Streams aka Branches as First Class Objects?

2013-05-13 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 12:23 PM, Andreas Krey a.k...@gmx.de wrote: On Mon, 13 May 2013 11:32:13 +, Les Mikesell wrote: ... Maybe it is just my misconception, but I've always thought of the difference between svn and git as being that svn conceptually tracks complete revisions although

RE: UNS: Re: Subversion Doesn't Have Branches aka Crossing the Streams aka Branches as First Class Objects?

2013-05-13 Thread Bob Archer
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 12:23 PM, Andreas Krey a.k...@gmx.de wrote: On Mon, 13 May 2013 11:32:13 +, Les Mikesell wrote: ... Maybe it is just my misconception, but I've always thought of the difference between svn and git as being that svn conceptually tracks complete revisions