Hi guys,
Just as a heads up I cleaned up some obsolete tags laying around. In
the tags directories of various projects I removed obsolete tags only
and referenced them with a readme.txt such as this one:
readme.txt in directory/shared/ldap/tags
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Some significant tags have been deleted but may be resuscitated or
checked out
by copying them back or exporting them using a revision number. Here we
list
those tags within the repository for future reference. This is done to
keep
the project root checkout lean, so only those branches in use should be
present.
tag: internal-release-0.9.2
deleted on: Thu Oct 27 2005
delete rev: 329033
resuscitate: svn cp -r 329032
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/directory/shared/l
dap/tags/internal-release-0.9.2 internal-release-0.9.2
tag: internal-release-0.9.1
deleted on: Thu Oct 27 2005
delete rev: 329033
ds: svn cp -r 329032 https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/directory/shared/l
dap/tags/internal-release-0.9.1 internal-release-0.9.1
...
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The tags in use have been left there. For example in MINA everything
below release-0.8.0 is now obsolete. Hence there was no reason to keep
internal-release-0.7, release-0.7.1, release-0.7.2, release-0.7.3 and
release-0.7.4 hanging around. Users that would like these can retrieve
them by resuscitating the tag using the svn command with revision number
in the readme.txt.
Note that we won't need this mechanism anymore after we goto the flat
structure with one releases and one trunk. I'll be glad to see this
mechanism gone. However I started cleaning this up using the old
mechanism so we have less work to do to get to the new SVN layout.
Under directory/releases we will not have to delete old tags because the
checkout behavior will change. However for these releases that used the
old structure we might want to put them under an 'old-releases'
directory within releases. Anyhow we can resuscitate the old tags
anytime or just copy the readme under old-releases.
Alex
