[news.eclipse.technology.subversive] feature request: tagging with curre

[mzampare@xxxxxxx (Michele Zamparelli)]

Dear Subversive folks:

I have the following problem, maybe you can help me.
We use the word "module" to identify a well defined directory structure 
like:

M/src
M/include
M/object/
M/lib


Suppose that M1 and M2 are two modules in the tree-like SVN repository, 
which could look like:

trunk/alpha/beta/M1   assigned to person P1
trunk/alpha/beta/M2   assigned to person P2

Our developers are using Eclipse with the Subversive plugin.

Suppose P1 wants to tag M1 with the name "MyTag" (or any other symbolic 
name, for that matter).
M1 is normally handled as a single "project" in Eclipse.

Subversive only allows the following tag to be created:

tags/Integration20080618/M1       whereas what would be desired is:
tags/Integration20080618/alpha/beta/M1

In other words in our community it is fairly important that when a 
symbolic name is communicated, the user of such release can extract the 
code from the repository and find it in the customary location, i.e. 
according to the tree structure which is present in the trunk.

Notice that such a behavior can be achieved with the command line, 
although in an error-prone way, by doing something like:
svn mkdir -m "creating tag MyTag" svn://URL/tags/Mytag
svn mkdir -m "creating tag MyTag" svn://URL/tags/MyTag/alpha
svn mkdir -m "creating tag MyTag" svn://URL/tags/MyTag/alpha/beta
and finally
svn copy  -m "taggin MyTag" M1 svn://URL/tags/MyTag/alpha/beta

I have played with the different Repository Layout options (Single Project 
Layout, Multiple Project Layout, Monolithic Project Layout) but this does 
not seem to have an impact on my issue.
Am I missing any configuration option?

Could the Subversive plugin be modified in this direction? (i.e. an option 
would offer to create the missing alpha/beta pieces under the tag).
Does it make sense in the first place?

I am kind of lost at this stage, so any kind of help is greatly 
appreciated.

Michele