Bryant Eastham wrote:
>> 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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This one seems to want to be able to maintain updates on the old
projects, as so you would make a branch ( svn copy ) for your
maintainance needs, but remove it from trunk.
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