Question

My team uses SVN for our software platform, and we create tags periodically to help keep module versions straight. Best practice, as I understand it, is not to modify a tag once it has been created. However, it seems that sometimes the temptation is too great and a modification is made to one of the tags.

Is there a way to prevent these kinds of checkins, or at least make them a complete pain so that we can discourage them automatically?

Thanks,
Joe

Answer 1

Create a pre-commit hook which will reject the commit if the tag exists already. More details on implementing hooks can be found here (see the Implementing Repository Hooks section):

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.reposadmin.create.html