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.

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。

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.

主干:在敏捷的每一个冲刺阶段结束后，我们会推出一个部分可交付的产品。这些释放物被保存在后备箱里。

分支:每个正在进行的冲刺的所有并行开发代码都保存在分支中。

标签:每次我们发布一个部分可发货的产品的测试版，我们都会为它做一个标签。这为我们提供了在那个时间点可用的代码，允许我们在开发过程中的某个时间点需要时回到那个状态。

对于熟悉GIT的人来说，GIT中的master相当于SVN中的trunk。

分支和标记在GIT和SVN中有相同的术语。

我认为一些混淆来自标记概念和SVN中的实现之间的差异。对于SVN来说，标签是一个分支，它是一个副本。修改标签被认为是错误的，事实上，像TortoiseSVN这样的工具会警告你，如果你试图用../tags/..在路上。