[RFC] Workingstyle of different VCS systems

[Matthew Woehlke]

Matt Rogers wrote:
> I think we need to support tagging and branching in the interface somehow. 
> Just because it's not something that developers do often, it's something we 
> should support, especially if we want a "make a release, package it, and 
> publish it" plugin, like we have with KDevelop 3.

Ok, well the multiple interfaces thing will cover this :-). The plug-in 
will just have to be careful about VCS's that don't implement tagging as 
something that is not branching (e.g. subversion, as opposed to perforce 
where they are *totally* different actions).

This brings up a wrinkle... we need to be careful how we define a 
"checkout scope"... in svn it is just a path; in perforce it is a client 
view (i.e. a mapping consisting of several path pairs with an optional 
exclude flag). Tagging needs to take a "checkout scope" as input.

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Matthew
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