[Rt-devel] Relabeling subversion branches

Matt Disney disney at ece.utk.edu
Thu Jul 1 23:39:12 EDT 2004


Max Bowsher said:
> Ruslan U. Zakirov wrote:
>> /RT/testing - floating tag, always point on last revision in testing
>> branch(3.2.HEAD)
>
> Cannot be done. This isn't a floating tag, it's an alias for a branch.
> Subversion does not support aliases for branches.

But it could be a copy, right? You would just have the overhead of
creating the copy each time you roll a release. Not as good as an alias,
granted, but AFAIK it could be done that way. So, like a manual floating
tag I suppose. :-)

MD



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