What do you use the svn tags directory for anyways?

Question

Ok so we all know the standard SVN set-up of

trunk\\
branches\\
tags\\

And I realize that the recommendation is that tags should have \"spe

Answer 1

I create a tag every time I promote a project from a development server to a production server. This gives me a history of what code was promoted to production. If there are any issues, I can quickly roll back to the previous production version.

You would not want to checkout/change/commit anything in the tags directory. It is simply a place to keep a snapshot of your code from a given point in time.