Re: Tags Clean Up

On 2/26/07, Res Pons <pons32@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm curious to know if anyone ever cleans up their tags folders and only
> keep around that tags folder which have made it to a release? Am I
> supposed
> to clean them up?
>
> Are the tags full folder snapshots of a project or cheap copies of delta
> differences?

There is no reason to clean them up from a repository space point of view.
If you do not need them any more and cleaning them up makes browsing the
folder more efficient, then by all means clean them up. Likewise, you could
create some kind of archived tag folder structure and just move the tag to
that folder.

Tags are cheap copies, they do not take up much space. Even if they did,
since a delete in Subversion does not remove the historical artifact it does
not save space to delete something (it actually uses a few bytes if
anything). Likewise, moving a tag to an archive area would also just use a
few bytes.

In the end, the answer is to do what you want based on your needs.

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Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/