On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:31:49 +0200 opensource@xxxxxxxxx (Till Maas) wrote: > On Tue October 7 2008, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:26:38 +0200 > > > > (Till Maas) wrote: > > > > according to the UsingCvsFaq[1] one can remove a branch directory > > > from cvs with "cvs remove". I tried this, but it seems not to > > > work. I removed the "FC-1" directory from pam_mount, but when I > > > cvs co'ed the pam_mount directory again, an empty "FC-1" > > > directory appeared. Is there some parameter I can pass to "cvs > > > remove" to get the directory removed, too? > > > > Why are you needing to do this? > > > > Granted, not many people should need to look at what was in FC-1 > > much, but it's possible there could be something there someone > > would want to look at, and now all the files in there are marked > > dead, so it's more of a chore to get them to look at. > > Using the viewcvs webinterface, it is pretty easy to get the dead > files: > http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/pam_mount/FC-1/?hideattic=0 > > I guess there is also some commandline option that allows to easily > access these files. I suppose. > > Perhaps we could look at archiving off all those old branches if > > they are causing a problem? > > After I got this working, the next step was to suggest to remove all > old branches (F-7 and older) for every package in the near future. Why not ask infrastructure to see about moving those all off to a archive site/location? > The reason why I want this done, is that they mess up some packages, > where there are now 10 or more branch directories. Oh? how? > Also it takes > unecessarily long for to checkout packages. Especially packages that > not only have many branches, but also a lot of patches. That shouldn't be a function of how many branches there are, but how many files/revisions are in CVS for the files you are checking out. Wouldn't it be better to look at moving to a newer VCS that can handle this case better? You might look and add that as a desired feature for the next VCS. > Regards, > Till kevin
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