removing old snapshot CVS tags?

[Florian Weimer]

"Joseph S. Myers" <jsm@polyomino.org.uk> writes:

> You don't think that, when someone does a study on "The Cultural and
> Technical Development of the EGCS Project, 1997-1999" (perhaps as part of
> a more general historical study of free software development), they might
> want to look at the changing perspectives on the uses of snapshots versus
> CVS and the influences particular brokennesses in the tree

Why can't we create a monthly (or yearly) dump of the actual CVS
repository, to support such research (this might make some sense for
other reasons as well)?  Are the disk space requirements so immense?