RCS Comparison table and ease of use

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 01:47 -0500, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> Matthew Hannigan wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 03:20:48PM +0100, Nicholas Allen wrote:
> >>  ...  But I agree that svn does not really 
> >> support this [tags]
> > 
> > I think that's overstating it.  SVN clearly does
> > support tags.  You can argue with the niceness of the
> > implementation, but they work for me.
> Hey, I said I was being trollish.  Don't make me continue this line of
> discussion.  I will note though, that to the extent that SVN tags are
> just branches in a repository, Bazaar also supports doing tags as
> branches in a repository.  And yet, we still feel the desire to
> implement "real tags", as we conceive of them.
Just using branches as tags in a distributed vcs has the problem that
you have to explicitly copy over all the tags, whereas you'd want (at
least I'd like to in the use cases I have for tags) the tags to
propagate automatically when you run 'bzr branch'. 

Subversion (with its limited scope, I may add) can only have the actual
branches exist in one place, so there's no need for tags to propagate.

Cheers,

Jelmer
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Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org> - http://samba.org/~jelmer/
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