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[Derek Atkins]

Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> writes:

> On 10 January 2011 15:12, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>> Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> writes:
>>
>>> On Wednesday 05 January 2011, Jeff Kletsky wrote:
>>>> I don't like that history is a pretty flexible thing and that "branches"
>>>> are just pointers to specific commits, rather than the kind of
>>>> "followable path" that svn provides.
>>>>
>>> That's interesting, because I feel exactly the oposite. I don't like it that
>>> for svn a branch or tag is a path into the repository. It has always felt
>>> artificial to me and if not treated with proper care could put you into very
>>> unwanted situations like people inadvertently committing changes to a tagged
>>> release.
>>> I guess this is mostly a matter of taste and what you are most used to
>>> though...
>>
>> I like that branches are paths, because you DO want to be able to make
>> additional commits into a branch.  So I don't agree with you there.
>
> I am not sure what you are suggesting here.  Using git there is no
> problem committing to a branch, just checkout the branch, make the
> changes, and commit.  The changes go onto the branch.

We're not talking about git; we're talking about svn.

-derek

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