[fpc-other] [fpc-pascal] Google Code closing down

Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl.fpc-other at telemetry.co.uk
Mon Mar 16 13:40:34 CET 2015


Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> Hello Mark,
> 
> On 2015-03-16 11:50, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>> details perhaps they'd explain them, after all /somebody/ has to give 
>> Graeme something concrete on which to build his argument :-)
> 
> hehehe... Just watch Linus's Google Tech Talk on YouTube. ;-)
> 
> I can also add that SubVersion has *no* concept of Tags. To SubVersion
> there is no difference between a Tag and a Branch. Why do I say that?
> Simply because you can create a Tag in the repository, and then start
> adding commits to it.... just mind boggling! :) Why did they even bother.

I agree. In any reasonable vocabulary, a tag would represent a 
particular revision number relative to a branch.

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