On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 9:59 PM, Laurent PETIT<laurent.pe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > 2009/7/6 Stephen C. Gilardi <squee...@mac.com>: >> >> On Jul 6, 2009, at 3:13 PM, Tom Emerson wrote: >> >> Thanks Paul, for the quick response. >> >> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Phil Hagelberg<p...@hagelb.org> wrote: >> >> That's right. Side note to folks with commit access: it would be a good >> >> idea to check in a note to the deprecated repositories telling people >> >> where to go for the latest versions. >> >> Or, better, do away with those obsolete repos entirely. But whatever. >> >> In the case of SourceForge, they have a strong preference for keeping old >> repos around. I think it's confusing, but I recall looking into it and >> finding that was their policy. I'm not sure whether or not Google Code has a >> similar preference. Some clear, local indication in each repository that >> marks it as "no longer maintained, see clojure.org for current info" would >> be a win of course. >> > > I think there could be a way to make both parts happy : rather than > just adding the info that it is an old repo in some README file in the > root directory of the svn repo, committing also an svn delete command > on all the contents of trunk could help clarify this : by default, > users checking (or updating !) trunk would have an empty working copy > as a result (and also just the informative README file). > But tags would still be there, and also the entire repository history, > as a svn delete is just deleting files in the commited revision, not > deleting the history (one could retrieve a working copy by just > emitting svn up -r N-1 where N would be the "deletion" commit. >
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