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removing old snapshot CVS tags? (was: gcc_latest_snapshot CVS tag)
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Kelley Cook <KelleyCook at wideopenwest dot com>
- Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 14:00:49 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: removing old snapshot CVS tags? (was: gcc_latest_snapshot CVS tag)
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On Wed, 28 May 2003, Kelley Cook wrote:
> BTW, This is not an really an argument for the sake of arguing. There
> is a big usability downside to too many tags. Go to the web site
> repository (example: http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/gcc/gcc/),
> scroll to the bottom and try to search for a specific branch (like
> gcc-3_3-branch). There are hundreds of entries in there, 90%+ of which
> have never and will never have been used.
We might consider removing old snaphot CVS tags, for example, all that
are older than 18 or 24 months.
If there is consensus on that, I'm volunteering to do the actual work.
Gerald