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Re: removing old snapshot CVS tags? (was: gcc_latest_snapshot CVStag)
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm at polyomino dot org dot uk>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Kelley Cook <KelleyCook at wideopenwest dot com>
- Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 19:26:18 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: removing old snapshot CVS tags? (was: gcc_latest_snapshot CVStag)
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On Sun, 13 Jul 2003, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
>> We might consider removing old snaphot CVS tags, for example, all that
>> are older than 18 or 24 months.
> Before removing any bit of history from the repository, please put a
> self-consistent snapshot of the repository from before the removal in
> old-releases/old-cvs on the FTP site (to stay there permanently).
Frankly, I don't think that's worth it. We are talking about snapshot
tags only, not even pre-releases or some-such, and I completely fail to
see the benefit of keeping this bit of history.
Gerald