Re: [boost] [svn] cleaning up old branches

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-08-10 11:53:17

on Fri Aug 10 2007, Nicola Musatti <Nicola.Musatti-AT-gmail.com> wrote:

> Daniel Wallin <daniel <at> boost-consulting.com> writes:
>
>> OK, I just removed all branches that hasn't been touched in 2 years:
>> 
>>   http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/38550
>> 
>> We could probably remove more branches, but 2 years seemed like a safe
>> cutoff.
>
> I'm not convinced this is such a good idea. Some of the deleted branches don't
> seem to have much use nowadays, but some might; I'm thinking of the old RC and
> the SPIRIT_MINIBOOST ones.
>
> At the very least I would have waited a few months before proceding, or maybe
> just moved branches to old_branches.

You can get them back, you know.  They're still there in the revision
history.

> The more I have to do with Subversion the more I think that making tags and
> branches plain directories was an extremely bad idea.

Relevance?

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