Revision tag

A revision tag is the term often used to define a textual label that can be associated with a specific revision of a project maintained by a revision control system. This allows the user to define a meaningful name to be given to a particular state of a project that is under version control. This label can then be used in place of the revision identifier for commands supported by the version control system.

For example, in software development, a tag may be used to identify a specific release of the software such as "version 1.2".

See also

• Trunk (software)
• Branching (software)
• Tagging

Revision control software Years, where available, indicate the date of first stable release. Systems with names in italics are no longer maintained or have planned end-of-life dates. Local only Free/open-source SCCS (1972) RCS (1982) Proprietary PVCS (1985) QVCS (1991) Client–server Free/open-source CVS (1986, 1990 in C) CVSNT (1998) QVCS Enterprise (1998) Subversion (2000) Proprietary Software Change Manager (1970s) Panvalet (1970s) Endevor (1980s) DSEE (1984) Synergy (1990) ClearCase (1992) CMVC (1994) Visual SourceSafe (1994) Perforce (1995) StarTeam (1995) Integrity (2001) Surround SCM (2002) AccuRev SCM (2002) SourceAnywhere (2003) Vault (2003) Team Foundation Server (2005) Team Concert (2008) Distributed Free/open-source GNU arch (2001) Darcs (2002) DCVS (2002) ArX (2003) Monotone (2003) SVK (2003) Codeville (2005) Bazaar (2005) Git (2005) Mercurial (2005) Fossil (2007) Veracity (2010) Proprietary TeamWare (1990s?) Code Co-op (1997) BitKeeper (1998) Plastic SCM (2006) Concepts Branch Fork Changeset Commit Interleaved deltas Delta compression Data comparison Merge Repository Tag Trunk Category Comparison List