除了Nick所说的，您还可以在流式线:并行软件开发的分支模式中找到更多信息

在这个图中，main是主干，rel1- maintenance是分支，1.0是标记。

除了Nick所说的，您还可以在流式线:并行软件开发的分支模式中找到更多信息

在这个图中，main是主干，rel1- maintenance是分支，1.0是标记。

主干是保存最新源代码和特性的开发线路。它应该包含最新的错误修复以及添加到项目中的最新功能。

分支通常用于做一些远离主干(或其他开发线)的事情，否则会破坏构建。新特性通常构建在分支中，然后合并回主干中。分支通常包含一些代码，这些代码不一定被分支的开发线所批准。例如，程序员可以尝试对分支中的某些内容进行优化，只有在优化令人满意时才会合并回开发线上。

标记是存储库在特定时间的快照。不应该在这些基础上进行任何开发。它们最常用于获取发布给客户端的内容的副本，以便您可以轻松地访问客户正在使用的内容。

这里有一个链接到一个非常好的知识库指南:

源码控制

维基百科上的文章也值得一读。

One of the reasons why everyone has a slightly different definition is because Subversion implements zero support for branches and tags. Subversion basically says: We looked at full-featured branches and tags in other systems and did not found them useful, so we did not implement anything. Just make a copy into a new directory with a name convention instead. Then of course everyone is free to have slightly different conventions. To understand the difference between a real tag and a mere copy + naming convention see the Wikipedia entry Subversion tags & branches.

当我在OpenCV 2计算机视觉应用编程烹饪书的作者的网站上查找时，我发现了这个关于SVN的很棒的教程，我想我应该分享一下。

他有一个关于如何使用SVN的教程，以及短语“trunk”、“tag”和“branch”的含义。

直接引用自他的教程:

The current version of your software project, on which your team is currently working is usually located under a directory called trunk. As the project evolves, the developer updates that version fix bugs, add new features) and submit his changes under that directory. At any given point in time, you may want to freeze a version and capture a snapshot of the software as it is at this stage of the development. This generally corresponds to the official versions of your software, for example, the ones you will deliver to your clients. These snapshots are located under the tags directory of your project. Finally, it is often useful to create, at some point, a new line of development for your software. This happens, for example, when you wish to test an alternative implementation in which you have to modify your software but you do not want to submit these changes to the main project until you decide if you adopt the new solution. The main team can then continue to work on the project while other developer work on the prototype. You would put these new lines of development of the project under a directory called branches.

嗯，我不确定我同意尼克重新标签类似于一个分支。标签只是一个标记

Trunk would be the main body of development, originating from the start of the project until the present. Branch will be a copy of code derived from a certain point in the trunk that is used for applying major changes to the code while preserving the integrity of the code in the trunk. If the major changes work according to plan, they are usually merged back into the trunk. Tag will be a point in time on the trunk or a branch that you wish to preserve. The two main reasons for preservation would be that either this is a major release of the software, whether alpha, beta, RC or RTM, or this is the most stable point of the software before major revisions on the trunk were applied.

在开源项目中，不被项目涉众接受的主要分支可以成为分叉的基础——例如，与其他源代码共享共同起源的完全独立的项目。

分支和标记子树与主干的区别如下:

Subversion allows sysadmins to create hook scripts which are triggered for execution when certain events occur; for instance, committing a change to the repository. It is very common for a typical Subversion repository implementation to treat any path containing "/tag/" to be write-protected after creation; the net result is that tags, once created, are immutable (at least to "ordinary" users). This is done via the hook scripts, which enforce the immutability by preventing further changes if tag is a parent node of the changed object.

Subversion从1.5版开始还增加了与“分支合并跟踪”相关的特性，这样提交到分支的更改就可以合并回支持增量式“智能”合并的主干中。