One of the features of version control systems is the ability to isolate changes onto a separate line of development. This line is known as a branch. Branches are often used to try out new features without disturbing the main line of development with compiler errors and bugs.

Dec 8, 2008 · Use svn copy and create a copy in the tags folder. This is more convention than anything else, but most repositories will have folders called trunk, tags, and branches. Don't worry about creating extra copies - it's not really duplicating all those files -- …

Jan 6, 2021 · In SVN a tag and branch are really similar. Tag = a defined slice in time, usually used for releases Branch = also a defined slice in time that development can continue on, usually used for major version like 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, etc, then when you release you tag the branch.

Jun 12, 2018 · Now we’re ready to give our code a tag. Essentially a more user-friendly label to a set of our files residing in the repository at a certain point in time. First then lets take a look at our local copy of the repository files and see what revision number SVN has given them.

One of the features of version control systems is the ability to isolate changes onto a separate line of development. This line is known as a branch. Branches are often used to try out new features without disturbing the main line of development with compiler errors and bugs.

You have to "svn update" to pull the new tag to local, in order to "see" the new tag in your machine. For the paths, you can navigate to the corresponding branch folder and use "svn info" to get it. You are correct in that it's not "right" to add files to the tags folder.

"Tags" are a type of label that can be applied to a repository at a certain point in time. They are frequently used to give human-readable names to important milestones so that they can be easily accessed later (for example, "version-1.2").

1). There should be a fairly easy to use "svn mklabel" command that creates the label. 2). Anyone should be able to create a label, but only the Subversion administrator should be able to change it. This would include editing the label, moving it, renaming it, and even deleting it. 3). You need to be able to list the various label names created ...

In this case, you want to make a snapshot of your exact working copy arrangement and store it in the repository. Luckily, svn copy actually has four different uses (see svn copy (cp) in svn Reference—Subversion Command-Line Client), including the ability to copy a working copy tree to the repository:

Jan 23, 2014 · The Subversion book is online in a complete and free form: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn-book.html#svn.branchmerge.tags. And yes, you basically do an svn copy. Subversion is smart enough to do a copy-on-write style mechanism to …