Re: [mdt-ocl.dev] CVS Clean Up

[Ed Willink <ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Axel

Sounds a bit hard/frightening.

Let's forget it and do the maintenance on GIT. Maybe we can lose the 
branch in the transfer or will use a distinct naming policy so that the 
premature name isn't an issue.

    Regards

        Ed

On 12/03/2011 21:45, Axel Uhl wrote:
> Here a wild guess for a) based on what I know about CVS. For branches 
> CVS and the underlying RCS stores all deltas starting from the branch 
> point in forward order (as opposed to the usual backward order for the 
> trunk). There's a specific RCS command to really delete a revision 
> from a ,v-file. Obviously, this can only work for branch tips, not for 
> in-between revisions. If these assumptions are correct we will be able 
> to come up with a script that removes a branch by identifying all 
> files that had commits on the branch and delete them starting from the 
> branch tip going backwards.
>
> And since a gazillion people are using CVS I'm pretty sure someone may 
> have done this before.
>
> Other ideas?
>
> -- Axel
>
> On 03/12/2011 09:59 PM, Ed Willink wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > b), c) done.
> > Bugzilla 339804 raised for a). No idea how to do it.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Ed
> >
> > On 11/03/2011 06:55, Ed Willink wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > We now have at least three CVS contributions to delete
> > >
> > > a) the premature 3.1 maintenance branch
> > > b) my misplaced eclipsecon tutorials
> > > c) Axel's misnamed tests
> > >
> > > Axel: could you please identify exactly what needs eliminating.
> > >
> > > All: anything else to cleanup?
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > Ed
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