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Re: How to mark a project inactive?

From: Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2008a_at_ryandesign.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:54:15 -0600

On Feb 20, 2008, at 20:37, Karl Fogel wrote:

> Matthew Hannigan writes:
>
>> I create a toplevel dir 'OLD' and move obsolete stuff there.
>>
>> Same effect, except it's easier to find stuff if you
>> want to do some archeological digs.
>
> You're missing the point of a version control system :-).
>
> It's still there after 'svn remove', too -- you just reach back into
> time (into the repository's history) and pull it out again if you need
> it. See http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.tour.history.html.

I'm sure Matthew's aware of that, as am I, but I too find it easier
to move old projects to an "old" directory rather than "svn rm" them.
It's easier to "svn ls $REPO/old" than it is to try to remember what
an old project was called or find a revision number in which it still
existed.

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