RE: Re: How to mark a project inactive?

>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.

But isn't that what history is for? You would look at the history of the
directory containing your projects and see the comings and goings of all
your projects?

Besides, there are major issues with having an "OLD" directory:

1. It doesn't handle projects with the same names over time.
2. Heaven forbid someone should do a checkout.

I concur that you are missing the point of a version control system :-).

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Received on 2008-02-21 08:52:00 CET