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Re: Details for svn test repository


On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 18:40 -0800, Mike Stump wrote:
> On Friday, February 11, 2005, at 05:29  PM, Daniel Berlin wrote:
> > I'll keep the last branchpoint of each branch for the initial import
> 
> Won't work either...  Sometimes we reuses merge labels in non-obvious 
> ways.  top-200501-merge and top-200502-merge both exist, the two were 
> used for, say, treeprofiling, and then a random other (important) 
> branch uses the first for its merge.
> 
> Also, even if you could track those down (you can't), it still would 
> obliterate merge auditing, which is a very useful feature to find how 
> exactly how someone screwed up a past merge.
> 
> I don't see the advantage of wiping those labels yet.

> 
> If you left all labels mentioned in any log entry, that would almost 
> solve most instances that I know about, but, sometimes people misspell 
> the tags in obvious ways in the log messages.
> 

Fine, i'll just keep all the non-snapshot tags for now.



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