removing old snapshot CVS tags?

[Phil Edwards]

On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 07:32:24PM +0100, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Jul 2003, Florian Weimer wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> A dump of the repository before removing anything from the history (that
> relates to distributed files, as opposed to transient mistaken tags and
> such like) was exactly what I was proposing.  Various people have private
> rsynced backups of the repository on various schedules, kept for various
> periods - finding one when CVS corrupts a file is one thing, finding one
> in twenty (or two hundred) years' time is another matter.

We'll send them over to Jason Molenda's house, or Angela Marie Thomas'.  :-)

I would add that such a dump could almost certainly be safely relegated to
a tape or other offline storage.  I have a hard time imagining a researcher
desiring such a repository dump, browsing the ftp sites, and then giving
up without ever contacting the list for help.


Phil

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