How are tags made in Subversion?

Question

I know how to use tags in subversion. I create a tag every time I get to a release milestone.

What I don\'t quite understand is how they work.

Is a tag just a c

Answer 1

The Subversion book is online in a complete and free form: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn-book.html#svn.branchmerge.tags

And yes, you basically do an svn copy. Subversion is smart enough to do a copy-on-write style mechanism to save space and minimize transfer time.