Creating tags

It is a widely-used to pattern to create tags from a branch when the code in the branch is stable or has implemented some features. Since in Subversion the whole repository has one global revision, the tags are just symbolic names for a revision. They are useful however because they are usually meaningfull names following some predefined release numbering convention. For example, tag-2.5.6 might means that this is the 6th patch of the 5th branch of the 2nd version of the project. A simple scenario for tag usage is the following - the development team fix bugs and implement features. At some point of time they tag the branch they work on and ask the QA team to take the source, build it and test it.

Tags are created with svn copy command in the same way as branches:

$ svn copy
      https://localhost/svn/repo1/helloworld/branches/br-0.8
      https://localhost/svn/repo1/helloworld/tags/tag-0.8.1

Now we should only ensure that the contents of the tags is not modified. It can be easily done with authorization options.