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Re: Creating a tag


In message <200206191848.OAA29576@makai.watson.ibm.com>, David Edelsohn writes:
 > >>>>> Daniel Berlin writes:
 > 
 > > Can't we remove (using the admin command or direct RCS operations) old, 
 > > dead, branches, that have been merged tot he mainline and contain *no* 
 > > code that is useful anymore?
 > Daniel> To follow up, the rcs command is "-o<revisions>", and the source to 
 > rcs 
 > Daniel> shows it recomputes delta trees, and actually removes the revisions 
 > Daniel> from the file.
 > Daniel> So if we could do this (cvs admin or whatever), and reduce the numbe
 > r of 
 > Daniel> branches we have around, i would imagine that would bring our speed 
 > back 
 > Daniel> up.
 > 
 > 	Maybe Overseers will consider this.
Before we do this, I'd like to see someone with data which shows that it
will actually be useful in reducing resource utilization in a significant
and measurable way.

jeff






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