Remove a branch directory completely from cvs

Till Maas opensource at till.name
Wed Oct 8 18:30:04 UTC 2008


On Wed October 8 2008, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:31:49 +0200
>
> opensource at till.name (Till Maas) wrote:
> > On Tue October 7 2008, Kevin Fenzi wrote:

> > > 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?

I created a ticket:
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/893

> > 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?

I meant, that they mess up the package directory, i.e. harder to see which 
branches are there.

> > 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.

Iirc Jesse Keating asked for features for the next VCS some time ago, I 
already proposed it back then and it was added to the list.

Regards,
Till
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