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i'm going to be responsible for deciding how tagging branching is going to happen in our CVS/SVN repo.
Is there any literature that will help me understand the best way to work with CVS? either branching/tagging, etc?
thanks
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There is no difference between branches and tags in Subversion. The only difference is in what the user then does with the directory. Branches are typically created, edited, and then merged back into the trunk. Alternatively, tags are created as a snapshot of the project at a point in time and then never changed.
SVN's “branch” directory runs parallel to the “trunk” directory. A SVN branch copies the trunk and allows you to make changes. When the new feature is stable, the branch is merged back. Here's a basic step-by-step overview of SVN branching and merging.
My personal experience during more than 10 years of CVS at the FreeBSD project is: switch to something else as fast as you can. CVS is file oriented not snapshot/changeset oriented which makes merging beween branches rather painful. Branches are painful with CVS anyway.
As for resources for CVS see CVS Home
If you want to talk about SVN, I'd suggest the SVN Book itself and this question.
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I'd recommend reading the two Pragmatic Programmer books on SVN and CVS called "Pragmatic Version Control Using CVS" and "Pragmatic Version Control Using Subversion".
Both are excellent resources full of recipes describing what you want to do rather than the nuts and bolts descriptions of technology itself in the books previously mentioned.
HTH
cheers,
Rob
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