There are lots of ancient branches and tags in the SVN repository that
are no longer interesting, and it would be nice not to have them
cluttering up the lists and default fetch set.
The options I see for each branch or tag are:
1) Keep them at the same place.
2) Move them to a subdirectory like "dead", as was sometimes done in SVN.
3) Delete them.
4) Move them out of refs/{heads,tags}, perhaps into refs/namespaces/dead
or refs/namespaces/archive.
For release tags and active branches, #1 is obviously the right choice.
I don't think #2 is very useful.
I think #3 is the right choice for the *merge* tags: they are just
artifacts of the difficulty of SVN merges, and I think we should discard
them.
For most old branches and tags, I like #4; that takes them out of the
set that is fetched by default, but keeps the history on the server.
Make sense?
Jason
