Some release managers have the habit of copying trunk to a branch, then copying the branch to the tags dir (rather than moving it). In this case, deleting the branch makes sense; nothing of value is lost.
But for other branches, I would prefer to see them left there. As Matthias points out, anyone checking out the root is screwed anyway as they get all the tag dirs. Removing tags for old releases would be a very bad idea; it's important to have easy traceability of tagged releases. Regards, Simon Matthias Wessendorf schrieb: > Hi, > > I deleted 19 older Trinidad branches: > -713669 > -713670 > > Some are still there, and I keep them, since I need them. > > However, regarding your mistake :-) if one checks out the TAGs as > well, that would be more a pain, since we don't delete old TAGs generally > (for some reason). > > Anyways, that said, the Trinidad branches are now cleaned up. > The other projects I have no clue but just deleting them, even if > there is no response here on the list... is kinda harsh. > > -Matthias > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:08 PM, Grant Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Yes, I made that mistake :) It would be nice to reduce the pain of anyone >> making the same mistake in the future ! >> >> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Matthias Wessendorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >>> yes, I agree. >>> >>> I will take care of the Trinidad branches. >>> >>> However, I wonder why you notice that. Do you check out all branches as >>> well? >>> >>> -M >>> >>> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Grant Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi All, >>>> >>>> There seems to be an ever expanding number of branches in svn. I was >>>> wondering if we should start clearing some of them out ? I'm more than >>>> willing to take this on.. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Grant Smith >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> Matthias Wessendorf >>> >>> blog: http://matthiaswessendorf.wordpress.com/ >>> sessions: http://www.slideshare.net/mwessendorf >>> twitter: http://twitter.com/mwessendorf >>> >> >> -- >> Grant Smith >> >> >> > > > > -- -- Emails in "mixed" posting style will be ignored -- (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style)
