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Re: Creating a tag
- From: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
- To: Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin dot org>
- Cc: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 14:48:32 -0400
- Subject: Re: Creating a tag
>>>>> Daniel Berlin writes:
> Can't we remove (using the admin command or direct RCS operations) old,
> dead, branches, that have been merged tot he mainline and contain *no*
> code that is useful anymore?
Daniel> To follow up, the rcs command is "-o<revisions>", and the source to rcs
Daniel> shows it recomputes delta trees, and actually removes the revisions
Daniel> from the file.
Daniel> So if we could do this (cvs admin or whatever), and reduce the number of
Daniel> branches we have around, i would imagine that would bring our speed back
Daniel> up.
Maybe Overseers will consider this.
David