svn tag inspection

[Branko Čibej]

Giovanni Bajo wrote:

>Jeffrey A Law <law@redhat.com> wrote:
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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).
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>>Just a minor correction, you can certainly delete cvs tags.  It
>>just isn't something I'd necessarily recommend doing :-)
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>>cvs tag -d <tag>
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>I think that is not a versioned operatoin (but I might be wrong).
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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,
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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).
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>Giovanni Bajo
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