[Kde-scm-interest] Re: Minor difference in tag conversion

Chani chanika at gmail.com
Sat Jan 1 21:32:33 CET 2011


> 
> Maybe, but it means changing history, svn doesn't have any tags. The
> fact that there's a tags/ subdir in our svn repo and that one is used to
> emulate tags is just that, an emulation. In addition the tags have been
> historically created before the release, i.e. they're created, then
> tarballs from the tag, then build-fixes are done to branch and the
> commits are cherry-picked into the tag. Thats why there's an unnamed
> branch on which the actual tag is in the git history.
> 

this makes it sound like kde's release "tags" actually correspond more to git 
branches than git tags. :)

-- 
Chani
http://chani.ca
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