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Re: removing old snapshot CVS tags?

Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> writes:

> On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 08:50:51AM -0400, Kazu Hirata wrote:
> >Hi Gerald,
> >>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.
> >
> >I am for it.  People can always do "cvs up -D ...".
> 
> Ditto.  Do we even need snapshots that are older than six months?
> 
> Are there other tags (or branches) that could possibly be removed as
> well?  We could think about removing whole branches, couldn't we?
> Removing branches could speed up cvs access slightly.

I strongly oppose removing any kind of old history.  Snapshot tags
cannot be replaced with -D, and old branches are often the only way to
see the history of a feature or a release.

-- 
- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>
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