Re: delete dead feature branches?

2009-10-14 Thread Michael Matz
Hi, On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Ben Elliston wrote: I deleted a personal branch from 5 years ago and have added the revision number of the delete commit to the branch description in svn.html. Would these two conventions suffice? Well, I'm always of the opinion that it's better to have some

Re: delete dead feature branches?

2009-10-14 Thread Ben Elliston
On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 08:33 +0200, Michael Matz wrote: So, why not just move them to dead-branches now, and be done with it? OK, your argument has convinced me. :-) Cheers, Ben

Re: delete dead feature branches?

2009-10-13 Thread Jason Merrill
On 10/12/2009 09:05 PM, Michael Matz wrote: I don't think we should necessarily limit ourself by bugs in foreign tools if it reduces useful information. What about a new top-level directory dead-branches/, not under branches/ but parallel to it? Should be easy to exempt from git-svn handling,

Re: delete dead feature branches?

2009-10-13 Thread Ben Elliston
On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 03:05 +0200, Michael Matz wrote: I don't think we should necessarily limit ourself by bugs in foreign tools if it reduces useful information. What about a new top-level directory dead-branches/, not under branches/ but parallel to it? Should be easy to exempt from

Re: delete dead feature branches?

2009-10-13 Thread Daniel Berlin
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Jason Merrill ja...@redhat.com wrote: On 10/12/2009 05:17 PM, Andrew Pinski wrote: That seems like a huge bug in git-svn because we already use multiple directory levels under branches.  Hint ibm and redhat and debain. Yep, that's why I said expand.  I've

Re: delete dead feature branches?

2009-10-13 Thread Jason Merrill
On 10/13/2009 08:50 PM, Ben Elliston wrote: I found that svn log works well if you do this: svn log svn+ssh://b...@gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc | less Which in recent versions of svn can also be written svn log ^/ |less if you're in an SVN working directory. Jason

Re: delete dead feature branches?

2009-10-12 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 09/25/2009 09:35 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote: Viewing deleted files and their history (and for SVN deleted branches are just a special case of deleted files) is something SVN is bad at since you do need to work out the last revision the file was present first. Yep. Anyone deleting dead

Re: delete dead feature branches?

2009-10-12 Thread Jason Merrill
On 10/12/2009 10:22 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: Yep. Anyone deleting dead branches should add a link to the last live version in branches.html. It seems easier to me to move them under branches/dead, and possibly create branches/merged. Multiple directory levels under branches/ confuse git-svn;

Re: delete dead feature branches?

2009-10-12 Thread Andrew Pinski
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Jason Merrill ja...@redhat.com wrote: On 10/12/2009 10:22 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: Yep. Anyone deleting dead branches should add a link to the last live version in branches.html. It seems easier to me to move them under branches/dead, and possibly create

Re: delete dead feature branches?

2009-10-12 Thread Jason Merrill
On 10/12/2009 05:17 PM, Andrew Pinski wrote: That seems like a huge bug in git-svn because we already use multiple directory levels under branches. Hint ibm and redhat and debain. Yep, that's why I said expand. I've thought about fixing that aspect of git-svn, but I'm not sure how it would

Re: delete dead feature branches?

2009-10-12 Thread Michael Matz
Hi, On Mon, 12 Oct 2009, Jason Merrill wrote: On 10/12/2009 10:22 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: Yep. Anyone deleting dead branches should add a link to the last live version in branches.html. It seems easier to me to move them under branches/dead, and possibly create branches/merged.

Re: delete dead feature branches?

2009-10-11 Thread Ben Elliston
On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 16:55 +, Joseph S. Myers wrote: Do we believe any future conversion to another version control system (that might have a more structured notion of what is a branch than it simply being a directory used in a certain way) would continue to make the history of such

Re: delete dead feature branches?

2009-09-25 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Jason Merrill ja...@redhat.com writes: The SVN book (http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.branchmerge.basicmerging.html) suggests deleting feature branches that have been merged into the trunk; I think this would help to reduce the clutter in the branches directory and avoid confusion

Re: delete dead feature branches?

2009-09-25 Thread Joseph S. Myers
On Fri, 25 Sep 2009, Jason Merrill wrote: The SVN book (http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.branchmerge.basicmerging.html) suggests deleting feature branches that have been merged into the trunk; I think this would help to reduce the clutter in the branches directory and avoid

Re: delete dead feature branches?

2009-09-25 Thread Jason Merrill
On 09/25/2009 12:55 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote: Do we believe any future conversion to another version control system (that might have a more structured notion of what is a branch than it simply being a directory used in a certain way) would continue to make the history of such branches readily

Re: delete dead feature branches?

2009-09-25 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Jason Merrill ja...@redhat.com wrote: other than having been merged into trunk (for example, it may have been replaced by another branch without all changes being merged into trunk). My inclination would be to delete branches like that as well. that sounds a

Re: delete dead feature branches?

2009-09-25 Thread Richard Guenther
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis dosr...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Jason Merrill ja...@redhat.com wrote: other than having been merged into trunk (for example, it may have been replaced by another branch without all changes being merged into trunk).

Re: delete dead feature branches?

2009-09-25 Thread Joseph S. Myers
On Fri, 25 Sep 2009, Richard Guenther wrote: On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis dosr...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Jason Merrill ja...@redhat.com wrote: other than having been merged into trunk (for example, it may have been replaced by another

Source control features (Was: Re: delete dead feature branches?)

2009-09-25 Thread Joern Rennecke
Quoting Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com: Viewing deleted files and their history (and for SVN deleted branches are just a special case of deleted files) is something SVN is bad at since you do need to work out the last revision the file was present first. I hope that any version control