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

Tags are not intended to be modified, you should make a branch if you want to do that.

You can make a branch from a tag, which is probably what you would want to do, then re-tag the results of that branch as a different version.

You shouldn't checkout a tag for editing.

You don't lose any history by branching(copying) in SVN. It all is linked together.

Answer 2

We used it to tag specific builds that were interesting but not releases, e.g.: "Investor Demo", etc.

Answer 3

In my experience tags are used for release markers, and where you aren't likely to make modifications.

If you create a "release2-0" branch, and then need to make changes (e.g. to fix a bug found post-launch) it no longer represents what you released for version 2.0.

If instead you create the "release2-0" tag and find you need to patch that version, you can create a new branch, make the fix there, and tag that as "release-2-0-1".

This way you can easily access any of your releases.