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and everyone svn switches to that if they are doing core bugfixes. John - can you do this?

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some things I have written (jesse) general notes on subversion, branching and tagging, dumped here at the behest of jason...cut and copy up as needed..

A little bit about subversion. Tags and branches are functionally the same, and are merely symbolic. making a branch or a tag is not earmarking the file in the repository with a little indicator like it is in cvs, it is logically a copy of the file at that particular revision. with that in mind, tagging is no longer a seperate process from merging...they are no different. The act of tagging doesn't exist. Instead you merge a given changeset from one location to another. svn maintains some amount of knowledge of the file that it was copied from, but not what given changeset was merged into it when.

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