On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, Diego Novillo wrote: > On Tuesday 15 November 2005 21:17, Branko Äibej wrote: > > > Now that GCC has switched to SVN, and tag and branch names are for all > > practical purposes in different namespaces, you could drop the "-branch" > > suffix from new branch names. > > > Sure. Done. > > > (You could also rename old branches, but then old changelogs would be > > outdated.) > > > This is a bit harder with old branches. Several people have the branches > locally and a branch rename forces a new check-out.
Not sure what you mean by "have the branches locally" (SVK?), but a plain rename of a branch doesn't force new check-outs, people can use svn switch to point their working copies at the new branch name.
