On Tue, 15 Sep 2015, Jason Merrill wrote:
> 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.
I think putting things outside refs/heads and refs/tags is unduly
confusing and it's best to keep all the history in the default fetch set;
having large numbers of branches and tags is simply a consequence of
having a long-lived project. That is, #1 or #2.
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Joseph S. Myers
jos...@codesourcery.com
