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Re: Tag reorg
On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 03:08 +0100, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> "Giovanni Bajo" <giovannibajo@libero.it> writes:
>
> | Joseph S. Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> |
> | >> You can always see them with the url@rev syntax
> | >>
> | >> ie
> | >> svn ls svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/branches@105944
> | >
> | > Which requires remembering an arbitrary revision number (i.e., making
> | > life *harder* not *easier* for people looking for that branch)
> | > rather than a more meaningful branch name.
> |
> | And?
>
> And meaningful name matters.
> I would hate to see the fanatism taken to the point where just because
> you can do svn bar | baz fhu means we should not provide means for
> not-so-machine-mimicing humans.
>
Well, i think it's near-useless because i have doubts people actually go
spleunking around dead branches that have been *fully merged* (in SVN,
if you create new files on a branch, and merge to mainline, it will
retain history, so things like log and annotate will, by default, keep
going back through when it was created on the branch).
I don't share the view that just because you can script it, means we
should retain the absolute minimum and regenerate the list.
> -- Gaby