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Re: deleting a branch tag


From: Dennis Jones
Subject: Re: deleting a branch tag
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 19:03:19 -0800

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Hyslop" <address@hidden>
To: "Dennis Jones" <address@hidden>
Cc: "CVS Mailing List" <address@hidden>
Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2005 6:32 PM
Subject: Re: deleting a branch tag


> > Thanks Jim.  I guess it's not that big of a deal.  I'll just delete the
tag
> > and be done with it.
>
> If you aren't going to remove the revisions, don't bother removing the
> tags. If your goal is to reduce the amount of space used up, then by
> just removing the tags without removing the revisions, you are being
> penny-wise and pound-foolish, as the old saying goes.

No, my goal was to remove an old temporary branch that contains mostly
invalid code that should never be used.  It's essentially a development
branch that never went anywhere.  Some of the code it contained was merged
into another branch and development continued from there.  The rest is
throw-away code.  The branch doesn't even have any useful history in it, so
it's just wasting space.  However, since there were only a few commits ever
made to it, most of which were invalid anyway, it's not even wasting all
that much space.  So just deleting the branch tag will be enough to prevent
it from being used accidentally, which is all I really wanted.

Thanks,

- Dennis


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