As you know, I’m tortured by the pseudo requirement to layout your projects a certain way with svn. Some more thought (and chats with my svn friends) have led me to think that the tool doesn’t really force you to lay things out a certain way, since you could (and should I guess) checkout your projects at a lower level than the top.
eg
ft/
ft/cgi
ft/www
in svn would be
ft.repo/trunk/ft/
ft.repo/trunk/ft/cgi
ft.repo/trunk/ft/www
So you make the project called ft.repo, and make the svn directories under that of trunk, tags and branches. Then ft is my top level directory, and so I check it out with
svn checkout svn://…/ft.repo/trunk/ft ft
and this way my directories are arranged the way I want in my workspace, and tagging will not clutter up my workspace.
But I’m still not overly happy with this, and couldn’t be bothered moving my stuff around, so I decided to write a small shell script that associates the current revision with a tag that is saved into the file .tags in current directory (and committed). It doesn’t let you tag files, but certainly sub-directories are fine. I also merged in the svnignore program from a previous post. Suggestions for improvement are welcome, as this is the first version 
This works by writing version=tag to the file .tags in the current directory.
It is not a "real tag"
Usage:
svn tag “version-1.0″
This will write a “tag” to the current directory as version-1.0
svn listtags
This will list the “tags” for the current directory.
Put this in your path ahead of the real svn (or rename this file)
File: $HOME/bin/svn
#!/bin/sh
# @author Cameron Gregory. http://www.bloke.com/
SVN=/usr/bin/svn
if [ "$1" == "ignore" ]; then
shift;
#Usage svn ingore [file|dir|pattern]+
echo "Intercept ignore"
if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
svn propget svn:ignore .
exit 0;
fi
FILE="/tmp/svnignore.$$"
$SVN propget svn:ignore . > $FILE
i=0;
while [ $i -lt $# ]; do
echo "$1" >> $FILE
shift
done
sort -u $FILE | grep -v "^$" > $FILE.2
$SVN propset svn:ignore -F $FILE.2 .
$SVN propget svn:ignore .
/bin/rm -f $FILE $FILE.2
exit 0;
fi
if [ "$1" == "tag" ]; then
shift;
echo "Intercept tag"
TAG="$1"
$SVN update .
VER=`svnversion .`
echo "$VER=$TAG" >> .tags
$SVN add .tags 2> /dev/null
$SVN commit .tags -m "saving tag: $TAG"
tail -5 .tags
exit 0;
fi
if [ "$1" == "listtags" ]; then
echo "Intercept listtags"
if [ -f .tags ]; then
cat .tags
else
echo no tags
fi
exit 0;
fi
$SVN $*
exit $?
So if you want to checkout with a tag, then lookup the revision
and checkout using that. Hmm .. perhaps a little grep in the .tags file would be useful. Next time