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。

在SVN中，标记和分支非常相似。

标签=在时间上定义的片段，通常用于发布

分支=在开发过程中定义的片段，通常用于1.0、1.5、2.0等主要版本，然后在发布时标记分支。这允许您继续支持产品版本，同时在主干中进行突破性的更改

Trunk =开发工作空间，这是所有开发应该发生的地方，然后从分支发布合并回来的更改。

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。

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.

首先，正如@AndrewFinnell和@KenLiu指出的，在SVN中，目录名称本身没有任何意义——“主干、分支和标记”只是大多数存储库使用的一种常见约定。并不是所有的项目都使用所有的目录(根本不使用“标签”是很常见的)，事实上，没有什么可以阻止您调用任何您想要的名称，尽管打破常规经常会令人困惑。

我将描述分支和标记最常见的使用场景，并给出如何使用它们的示例场景。

Trunk: The main development area. This is where your next major release of the code lives, and generally has all the newest features. Branches: Every time you release a major version, it gets a branch created. This allows you to do bug fixes and make a new release without having to release the newest - possibly unfinished or untested - features. Tags: Every time you release a version (final release, release candidates (RC), and betas) you make a tag for it. This gives you a point-in-time copy of the code as it was at that state, allowing you to go back and reproduce any bugs if necessary in a past version, or re-release a past version exactly as it was. Branches and tags in SVN are lightweight - on the server, it does not make a full copy of the files, just a marker saying "these files were copied at this revision" that only takes up a few bytes. With this in mind, you should never be concerned about creating a tag for any released code. As I said earlier, tags are often omitted and instead, a changelog or other document clarifies the revision number when a release is made.

例如，假设你开始一个新项目。你开始在“主干”中工作，最终将以1.0版本发布。

Trunk / -开发版本，即将发布1.0 分支/ -空

一旦1.0.0完成，你将分支trunk到一个新的“1.0”分支，并创建一个“1.0.0”标记。现在，关于最终1.1版本的工作继续在主干中进行。

Trunk / -开发版本，即将发布1.1 分支/1.0 - 1.0.0发布版本 Tags /1.0.0 - 1.0.0发布版本

You come across some bugs in the code, and fix them in trunk, and then merge the fixes over to the 1.0 branch. You can also do the opposite, and fix the bugs in the 1.0 branch and then merge them back to trunk, but commonly projects stick with merging one-way only to lessen the chance of missing something. Sometimes a bug can only be fixed in 1.0 because it is obsolete in 1.1. It doesn't really matter: you only want to make sure that you don't release 1.1 with the same bugs that have been fixed in 1.0.

Trunk / -开发版本，即将发布1.1 分支/1.0——即将发布的1.0.1版本 Tags /1.0.0 - 1.0.0发布版本

一旦发现了足够多的错误(或者可能是一个严重的错误)，就决定发布1.0.1版本。因此，您从1.0分支创建了一个标记“1.0.1”，并发布了代码。此时，主干将包含1.1，而“1.0”分支包含1.0.1代码。下次你发布1.0版本的更新时，它将是1.0.2。

Trunk / -开发版本，即将发布1.1 分支/1.0——即将发布的1.0.2版 Tags /1.0.0 - 1.0.0发布版本 Tags /1.0.1 - 1.0.1发布版本

最终，你几乎准备好发布1.1，但你想先做一个测试版。在本例中，您可能会执行“1.1”分支和“1.1beta1”标记。现在，关于1.2(或者2.0)的工作在主干中继续进行，而1.1的工作则在“1.1”分支中继续进行。

Trunk / -开发版本，即将发布1.2 分支/1.0——即将发布的1.0.2版 分支/1.1——即将发布的1.1.0版本 Tags /1.0.0 - 1.0.0发布版本 Tags /1.0.1 - 1.0.1发布版本 Tags /1.1beta a1 - 1.1beta1发布版本

一旦发布了1.1 final版本，就可以从“1.1”分支执行“1.1”标记。

如果您愿意，还可以继续维护1.0，在所有三个分支(1.0、1.1和主干)之间移植错误修复。重要的一点是，对于您所维护的软件的每个主版本，都有一个包含该版本的最新代码版本的分支。

分支的另一个用途是用于特性。这是你分支主干(或你的发布分支之一)并独立开发新特性的地方。一旦特性完成，您将其合并并删除分支。

Trunk / -开发版本，即将发布1.2 分支/1.1——即将发布的1.1.0版本 分支/ui-rewrite -实验特性分支

The idea of this is when you're working on something disruptive (that would hold up or interfere with other people from doing their work), something experimental (that may not even make it in), or possibly just something that takes a long time (and you're afraid if it holding up a 1.2 release when you're ready to branch 1.2 from trunk), you can do it in isolation in branch. Generally you keep it up to date with trunk by merging changes into it all the time, which makes it easier to re-integrate (merge back to trunk) when you're finished.

还要注意，我在这里使用的版本控制方案只是众多方案之一。一些团队会将错误修复/维护版本作为1.1、1.2等，并将主要更改作为1。x, 2。x,等等。这里的用法是相同的，但是您可以将分支命名为“1”或“1”。而不是“1.0”或“1.0. X”。(除此之外，语义版本控制是如何进行版本号的一个很好的指南)。