Re: Tags Clean Up

Great and thank you for your quick response. That's exactly my problem:
browsing the tags folders takes a long time and I need to start creating
archive folders and move the tags into this subfolder. I use both Tortoise
and SVN Dos client on my WinXP desktop and our SVN server is a Redhat Linux
box running Apache.

I created a folder named archive in a project's tags subfolder and I could
not highlight multiple tag subfolders and drag them into the archive folder
as Tortoise only allowed me to drag one folder at a time.

I could run svn mv command but the problem is I'm not sure the svn-cli would
allow me to use wild cards. How do I achieve this in one command, do you
know? My tags folder includes many tag subfolders in the following format:
Buildnnn, where nnn is the next sequential number in the series.

Thanks for your help.

----Original Message Follows----
From: "Mark Phippard" <markphip@gmail.com>
To: "Res Pons" <pons32@hotmail.com>
CC: users@subversion.tigris.org
Subject: Re: Tags Clean Up
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 12:19:05 -0800

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/
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