- From: Terje Bless <link@pobox.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 21:49:12 +0200
- To: QA Dev <public-qa-dev@w3.org>
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 olivier Thereaux <ot@w3.org> wrote: >On Sep 29, 2004, at 22:38, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: >>It would also be good if someone could do whatever necessary to wipe >>out empty directories from the CVS tree, e.g. there is a dir for >>WD-html40-970917 which does not contain anything, which makes browsing >>the rep difficult. > >That's done. Removing directories and files from the _Repository_ is rewriting history and not a good thing to do in general. In particular, I'm fairly sure most of those directories were in use in previous versions of the code; and when “cvs rm”'ed CVS will ressurect the files from the Attic as needed when checking out old versions, but deleting them from the repository orphans them permanently. “cvs up -dP” will not cure this problem. Not that I particularly lament the loss of those directories and files, but in general I'd prefer we not rewrite history in this way — for our own good; it's a major PITA when you need to go back to an old revision — without good reason. Now to go try to find a way to shut my cron'ed “cvs up” jobs up… :-( - -- "Temper Temper! Mr. Dre? Mr. NWA? Mr. AK, comin´ straight outta Compton and y'all better make way?" -- eminem -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP SDK 3.0.3 iQA/AwUBQWw1N6PyPrIkdfXsEQLC3QCdHRIvot/EdwE1Eq0nkKLs/9bcBJ4An20M fAB5MnA60hKBmNIVv2XAgQsy =Wtco -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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