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Re: Creating a tag
- From: law at redhat dot com
- To: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin dot org>, Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 13:22:37 -0600
- Subject: Re: Creating a tag
- Reply-to: law at redhat dot com
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