Re: svn tag inspection

[Branko Äibej <brane at xbc dot nu>]

Giovanni Bajo wrote:

> Jeffrey A Law <law@redhat.com> wrote:
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>  
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> > > In fact, after the subversion conversion is over, we can "svn
> > > delete" all those merging tags for good since they're there because
> > > you can't delete them in CVS but we really don't need them anymore
> > > (before anybody asks: "svn delete" keeps history of course).
> > >      
> > Just a minor correction, you can certainly delete cvs tags.  It
> > just isn't something I'd necessarily recommend doing :-)
> >
> > cvs tag -d <tag>
> >    
>
>
> I think that is not a versioned operatoin (but I might be wrong).
It's not.

> The point is
> that with svn you can remove all those tags as versioned operations, so you are really not destroying past history,
Just to make this completely clear: removing a tag in SVN simply means 
that you remove the tag rirectory in HEAD. The tag (directory) still 
exists in previous revisions, so you can still, e.g., do a diff between 
two deleted tags. However, by deleting obsolete tags, you reduce the 
size of the tags directory in HEAD, thus obviously speeding up any 
queries amongs the current tags.

> and you're making the tags list much more
> meaningful and useful for everyday use. IMO we should do the same with closed
> branches, they really serve no purpose there in /branches in the current
> revision, we can safely "svn rm" them (or move to a /branches/closed subdir).
>
> Giovanni Bajo
>
>  


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