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Re: Ignoring tags and branches

From: Jan Hendrik <list.jan.hendrik_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:15:04 +0200

Concerning Ignoring tags and branches
Trevor Harmon wrote on 26 Sep 2008, 11:43, at least in part:

> Our source code repository has an ever-growing number of tags and
> branches. This really slows things down because when I do a checkout,
> the entire history of tags and branches are checked out. Difference,
> status, and search operations are also slowed down because they
> consider the tag and branch directories, even though I'm always
> working on the trunk.
>
> Is there some way to filter checkouts, or perhaps modify the working
> copy after a checkout, so that tags and branches are ignored? For
> example, if the repository looks like this:
>
> company/project1/tags
> company/project1/branches
> company/project1/trunk
> company/project2/tags
> company/project2/branches
> company/project2/trunk

I suppose it is too late to revise the structure:

company/trunk/project1
company/trunk/project2
company/branches/project1
company/branches/project2
company/tags/project1
company/tags/project2

Which has its downsides as well of course.

Jan Hendrik
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