Revision tag

A revision tag is a textual label that can be associated with a specific revision of a project maintained by a version 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 (version control)
• Tag (metadata)

Version 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 Systems with names in italics are no longer maintained or have planned end-of-life dates.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 RCS (1982) SCCS (1972) Proprietary PVCS (1985) QVCS (1991)
Client–server	Free/open-source CVS (1986, 1990 in C) CVSNT (1998) QVCS Enterprise (1998) Subversion (2000) Proprietary AccuRev SCM (2002) ClearCase (1992) CMVC (1994) Dimensions CM (1980s) DSEE (1984) Endevor (1980s) Integrity (2001) Panvalet (1970s) Perforce Helix (1995) Software Change Manager (1970s) StarTeam (1995) Surround SCM (2002) Synergy (1990) Team Concert (2008) Team Foundation Server (2005) Visual Studio Team Services (2014) Vault (2003) Visual SourceSafe (1994)
Distributed	Free/open-source ArX (2003) BitKeeper (1998) Codeville (2005) Darcs (2002) DCVS (2002) Fossil (2007) Git (2005) GNU arch (2001) GNU Bazaar (2005) Mercurial (2005) Monotone (2003) SVK (2003) Veracity (2010) Proprietary TeamWare (1990s?) Code Co-op (1997) Plastic SCM (2006) Team Foundation Server (2013) Visual Studio Team Services (2014)
Concepts	Branch Fork Changeset Commit Gated commit Interleaved deltas Delta compression Data comparison Merge Repository Tag Trunk
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