On Mon, 2017-10-23 at 18:40 +0100, Ian Boston wrote: > > So that would mean that all link to trunk would result in a 404 Not > > Found, as I have tried it with [1]. > > > So we either > > > a) break all links to the 'trunk' branch, or > > b) leave the 'trunk' branch alive, with the added disadvantage that > > navigating from a 'trunk' link leaves the impression that the > > branch/repo are still in use. > > > Did I get this right or is there something else? > > yes. a) isnt very friendly. > > If we choose b) we could rename the repository to sling-svn-ending- > 2017-10 > or something like that. GitHub will redirect all traffic. > > https://help.github.com/articles/renaming-a-repository/
That's pretty cool. I would assume that we won't be able to reclaim the old 'sling' name, otherwise the redirects would not work, but this should make it even clearer. Robert
