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Is it really a problem? (Score:2)
I agree, allowing tags to be mutable is silly, but has that actually been a problem for you in practice. I don't recall ever actually modifying the contents of stuff under a tag, and you can always revert it.
As far as the checkout thing goes, that'd be annoying, but I've never done that either. When I want to make a tag I always operate directly on the repo URI:
svn cp http://.../svn/Foo/trunk [...] http://.../svn/Foo/tags/2.0 [...]Yeah, distributed VCS is probably better in lots of ways, but Subversion works well enou
Re:Is it really a problem? (Score:1)
Unless you’ve accidentally committed the changes (which is hardly unlikely in a scenario where you’ve changed the tag’s files while thinking you were in some other directory), in which case Subversion likes to make your life as miserable as possible in trying to get that commit to go away.
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