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

[Torgny Nyblom]

On Saturday 01 January 2011 21.32.33 Chani wrote:
> > 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. :)

This is actually the case, all those last minute fixes that get patched by 
dirk...

/Regards
Torgny