[os-infrastructure] Re: Model discussion boiled dry(er)

[Joe Abbate]

Hi Alex,

Alex Hanshaw wrote:
> If you checkout and svn tag and then make and submit a change the tag is
> now a branch. It's content has changed and when you checkout the tag you
> get the original tag and the subsequent change (which is not propagated
> to the original branch). I have tested this and compared file content.
>   

I agree that if you submit changes to a "tag" it becomes a "branch". 
Ultimately, svn trunk, branches and tags are all svn "branches", just 
like ingres!main and ingres!ingres2006r2 are also Piccolo "branches", 
whereas Piccolo labels are not "branches". However, I believe that just 
like we accord ingres!main (or svn trunk) a special place logically, by 
branching most major codelines from it, an svn tags branch can be 
judiciously used as a label, albeit without the frozen-in-time 
protections provided by Piccolo.

Joe