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Re: Cleaning up tags and branches

From: Paul Koning <Paul_Koning_at_dell.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 17:27:37 -0400

>>>>> "Rush" == Rush Manbert <rush_at_manbert.com> writes:

 Rush> I have a repository that was migrated from CVS to SVN with the
 Rush> cvs2svn script. During the migration, quite a few branches and
 Rush> tags were created.

 Rush> Now other people are going to start using the repository, and I
 Rush> have been asked whether we can delete the branches and tags
 Rush> created during the migration. Being quite paranoid about stuff
 Rush> like that, I said no. However, I think that it would be okay
 Rush> to create a new directory /branches/cvsBranches and copy
 Rush> everything that is currently in /branches to there. I would
 Rush> also create /tags/cvsTags and copy everything currently in my
 Rush> tags directory to there.

 Rush> Nothing currently in /tags or /branches is useful going
 Rush> forward, but they helped greatly to set up my vendor source
 Rush> branches after the merge and I'm scared to just get rid of
 Rush> them. At the same time, we would like to start with "clean"
 Rush> /tags and /branches directories and enforce naming conventions
 Rush> for their use.

 Rush> I don't see any downside to moving the directories as outlined
 Rush> above. Does anyone else?

Sounds fine, but then again, deleting any tags/branches you don't need
is fine, too. Two reasons for that: the CVS -> SVN conversion process
creates those to capture everything it saw, but it doesn't have any
dependency on them remaining in existence. And also: as a version
control system, Subversion always lets you go back to any previous
point in history.

      paul

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