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Re: [wwwdocs] Adjust branching.html to new policy and subversion
Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> wrote:
>> svn cp svn+ssh://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/trunk svn
>> +ssh://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/branches/<branch name>
>
> Just curious, but, is this the same as for a tag? Does that mean
> that, potentially, you can commit to a checkout from /svn/gcc/tags/ ?
Theoretically, yes. In fact, /tags and /branches are just convention: they have
no special semantic, they are just two directories within the SVN repository
which, by convention, contain the tags and the branches respectively.
To avoid mistakes, you can tweak the access control of SVN so to gloabally
avoid any modification to a directory created within /tags (so that you can
just create or delete it, not modify its contents). I don't know if Danny
configured our repository this way, though.
Giovanni Bajo