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Arevision tag is a textuallabel that can be associated with a specific revision of a project maintained by aversion control system. This allows the user to define a meaningful name to be given to a particular state of a project that is underversion control. This label can then be used in place of the revisionidentifier for commands supported by the version control system.[1]
For example, insoftware development, a tag may be used to identify a specificrelease of the software such as "version 1.2".
Years, where available, indicate the date of first stable release. Systems with namesin italics are no longer maintained or have planned end-of-life dates. | ||||||
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