On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:31:49 +0200
opensource(a)till.name (Till Maas) wrote:
On Tue October 7 2008, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:26:38 +0200
>
> (Till Maas) wrote:
> > according to the UsingCvsFaq[1] one can remove a branch directory
> > from cvs with "cvs remove". I tried this, but it seems not to
> > work. I removed the "FC-1" directory from pam_mount, but when I
> > cvs co'ed the pam_mount directory again, an empty "FC-1"
> > directory appeared. Is there some parameter I can pass to "cvs
> > remove" to get the directory removed, too?
>
> Why are you needing to do this?
>
> Granted, not many people should need to look at what was in FC-1
> much, but it's possible there could be something there someone
> would want to look at, and now all the files in there are marked
> dead, so it's more of a chore to get them to look at.
Using the viewcvs webinterface, it is pretty easy to get the dead
files:
http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/pam_mount/FC-1/?hideattic=0
I guess there is also some commandline option that allows to easily
access these files.
I suppose.
> Perhaps we could look at archiving off all those old branches
if
> they are causing a problem?
After I got this working, the next step was to suggest to remove all
old branches (F-7 and older) for every package in the near future.
Why not ask infrastructure to see about moving those all off to a
archive site/location?
The reason why I want this done, is that they mess up some packages,
where there are now 10 or more branch directories.
Oh? how?
Also it takes
unecessarily long for to checkout packages. Especially packages that
not only have many branches, but also a lot of patches.
That shouldn't be a function of how many branches there are, but how
many files/revisions are in CVS for the files you are checking out.
Wouldn't it be better to look at moving to a newer VCS that can handle
this case better? You might look and add that as a desired feature for
the next VCS.
Regards,
Till
kevin