On Jun 1, 2007, at 12:09 PM, Anant Narayanan wrote:

Please do keep in mind that the students are required to submit a URL
and possibly even upload code that they have authored during the summer
to code.google.com at the end of the term. Committing directly to trunk
poses a practical problem as it will be difficult for the students to
distinctly show their work for audit.

I don't think that's true with Subversion.   It's more than possible to demonstrate the changes between tags or cite specific changes by URL.  Branches don't even really exist in subversion as far as that's concerned, they're just another type of tag.

- Jordan