How to properly create an SVN tag from trunk?

Question

I am creating my first project in Subversion. So far I have

 branches
 tags
 trunk

I think I immediately need to make branches singular and sta

Answer 1

Another option to tag a Subversion repository is to add the tag to the svn:log property like this:

   echo "TAG: your_tag_text" > newlog
   svn propget $REPO --revprop -r $tagged_revision >> newlog
   svn propset $REPO --revprop -r $tagged_revision -F newlog
   rm newlog

I recently started thinking that this is the most "right" way to tag. This way you don't create extra revisions (as you do with "svn cp") and still can easily extract all tags by using grep on "svn log" output:

   svn log | awk '/----/ {
                      expect_rev=1;
                      expect_tag=0;
                  }
                  /^r[[:digit:]]+/ {
                      if(expect_rev) {
                          rev=$1;
                          expect_tag=1;
                          expect_rev=0;
                      }
                  }
                  /^TAG:/ {
                      if(expect_tag) {
                          print "Revision "rev", Tag: "$2;
                      }
                      expect_tag=0;
                  }'

Also, this way you may seamlessly delete tags if you need to. So the tags become a complete meta-information, and I like it.