Koji and SVN

rob myers rob.myers at gtri.gatech.edu
Mon Jul 2 15:16:20 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 10:51 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Monday 02 July 2007 10:49:54 Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:
> > For subversion, a path plus a revision number would be sufficient.  Tags
> > in subversion are really just a convention.  Unless you put some code
> > into a pre-commit hook to prohibit it, tags can be modified just like
> > any other directory in subversion.  Unfortunately the same can be said
> > of CVS tags.
> 
> Yes, I'm wondering why suddenly it would be not necessary to provide this 
> convenience to developers, so that they'd have to guess at which path/rev# 
> was used to build a particular nvr.

we have only svn revision numbers.  noone here seems to miss the nvr
tag.  in other words, it is a convenience we haven't really needed or
used, and of course YMMV.

rob.




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