Maybe I'm Doing It Wrong, but when I want to tag a release (or create a branch) in subversion, I have to make a copy of the entire codebase. When I want to tag

Maybe I'm Doing It Wrong, but when I want to tag a release (or create a branch) in subversion, I have to make a copy of the entire codebase. When I want to tag a release in git, it just creates a pointer to a revision. It's far less annoying for the next person who needs to checkout the code.