From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 5 00:26:41 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC5EA16A420 for ; Sun, 5 Mar 2006 00:26:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC19C43D46 for ; Sun, 5 Mar 2006 00:26:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from flame.pc (patr530-a009.otenet.gr [212.205.215.9]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.13.5/8.13.5/Debian-3) with ESMTP id k250QHfD005980 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sun, 5 Mar 2006 02:26:23 +0200 Received: from flame.pc (flame [127.0.0.1]) by flame.pc (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k250PW95036387; Sun, 5 Mar 2006 02:25:32 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by flame.pc (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id k24I7NLC035077; Sat, 4 Mar 2006 20:07:23 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 20:07:23 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Duane Whitty Message-ID: <20060304180723.GA35010@flame.pc> References: <20060304141957.14716.qmail@web32705.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <200603041155.33813.duane@greenmeadow.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200603041155.33813.duane@greenmeadow.ca> X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-3.078, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.62, BAYES_00 -2.60, DATE_IN_PAST_06_12 0.50, DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE 0.20) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr Cc: pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Subversion? (Re: HEADS UP: Importing csup into base) X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2006 00:26:41 -0000 On 2006-03-04 11:55, Duane Whitty wrote: > IANAE on VCSs but I have been doing a lot of reading of late > concerning the differences between VCSs. I really believe SVN > has some extremely compelling features but the way it does/does > not do its tagging is, I believe, an important concern. If I > understand correctly it is the whole repository that gets a > version number and not individual files. There is a significant change of `mindset' when using Subversion, and I believe this is why you seem confused about this particular point. Subversion doesn't support *tagging* as CVS does, but it does support copying parts of a project tree to another place. Many people use the directory-based organization of their repository to keep ``tags'' in a separate path under their tree, i.e. using something like: repo/ project/ trunk/ src/ bin/ sbin/ ... branches/ ... tags/ smpng/ nmount/ ... releases/ 5.3-release/ 5.4-release/ 6.0-release/ 6.1-release/ There is nothing that stops you from making a copy of only parts of the trunk/ under a specific tag/ subdir, even if what is copied is a single file. I mostly agree with Dag-Erling Smorgrav that Subversion *does* have what we need right now. The only feature that I don't know how to handle yet is our use of custom RCS keywords, like $FreeBSD$. PS: Please make sure you remove duplicates from the recipient list. The original message to which I'm replying was sent to both `freebsd-arch' and `arch', so it ended up twice in my mailbox :)