On Wed October 8 2008, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:31:49 +0200 > > opensource@xxxxxxxxx (Till Maas) wrote: > > On Tue October 7 2008, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > > 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? I created a ticket: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/893 > > 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? I meant, that they mess up the package directory, i.e. harder to see which branches are there. > > 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. Iirc Jesse Keating asked for features for the next VCS some time ago, I already proposed it back then and it was added to the list. Regards, Till
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