Re: Archiving Projects (End-Of-Life)

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Johan Corveleyn <jcorvel_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm wondering if there is a (de-facto) standard way of "end-of-lifing"
> projects in an SVN repository, or any suggestions for this from other
> users on this list ...
>>
> I know I could just "svn rm" them, but some of the "project owners"
> feel a little bit uneasy about that.

Do they know that doing a "svn rm" doesn't actually remove those
projects from the repository? All "svn rm" does is remove them from
the HEAD of the repository. They can still access all the history,
tags, branches and what not by simply using the -r <revision>
parameter when you do a Subversion command. And, they can find out the
revision by doing a "svn log".

However, if that's to scary for them, create an "obsolete" folder and
move all the projects in there. Then, via pre-commit hook or
configuration, make all files and directories under "obsolete"
read-only:

+--obsolete (Whole subtree is read only)
| |
| trunk
| branches
| tags
|
+--trunk (Still read/write)
+--branches (Still read/write)
+--tags (Still read/write)

That'll get the files out of the main project tree, prevent further
changes in the code, yet still allow the developers to examine the
code and reminisce about the good ol' days when men were men and UUCP
was king.

-- 
David Weintraub
qazwart_at_gmail.com