A couple more subversion notes

[Mark Mitchell]

Joe Buck wrote:

> Another possibility is to increase the frequency of snapshots after
> the switch to subversion.  They will have a lower cost, since it will
> no longer be necessary to lock the database for an hour to attach the
> snapshot tag.  Or maybe no tag is necessary at all for snapshots,
> if all we need to record is the global revision number.

That would be my suggestion; just use revision number in lieu of the
datestamp in the snapshot, and never mind the tag.  The tag was just a
way of imposing a global revision number on CVS.

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