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

[Axel Uhl <eclipse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Discarding a branch in git is trivial. "git branch -D <branchname>" and 
it's gone.

Best,
-- Axel

On 03/13/2011 07:45 AM, Ed Willink wrote:
> 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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