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Re: delete dead feature branches?
On Fri, 25 Sep 2009, Richard Guenther wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis <dosreis@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> other than having been merged into trunk (for example, it may have been
> >>> replaced by another branch without all changes being merged into trunk).
> >>
> >> My inclination would be to delete branches like that as well.
> >
> > that sounds a sensible thing to do.
>
> Can you still see deleted branches when you list svn/gcc/branches? If not
> we should somewhere note down the last undeleted revision of a branch,
> otherwise you'd have to random guess revisions for checking them out, no?
Viewing deleted files and their history (and for SVN deleted branches are
just a special case of deleted files) is something SVN is bad at since you
do need to work out the last revision the file was present first. I hope
that any version control system we change to will make it easy again to
see the history of a deleted file (including one in a deleted directory,
or on a deleted branch) if you know its name but not exactly when it was
deleted.
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com