[DRE-maint] Removal of old tags / branches from SVN?

[Gunnar Wolf]

Lucas Nussbaum dijo [Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:25:48AM +0200]:
> Hi,
> 
> Our SVN repo has grown quite big (my checkout is >300M, and I don't
> really have a lot of additional files). I think it would make sense to
> remove old tags / branches from it, as well as packages that are no
> longer in Debian.
> 
> Everything would stay in the SVN history anyway, if we need it for some
> reason.
> 
> What do you think?

I see no real reason for this... If anything, we could switch the
repository layout to something akin to what we have (yes, again) at
the Perl group, where instead of handling each module as a separate
project with branches/tags/trunk, it is the other way around - i.e.,
instead of having /packages/libfoo-ruby/trunk/ we would use
/packages/trunk/libfoo-ruby/. This allows for checking out only the
trunks, and is cleaner. Of course, requires some shuffling around, but
I can dig into it. svn-buildpackage is able to cope with both
arrangements.

Then again... We could just switch to git and test a different
(although quite similar) workflow, grouping our repositories as
submodules on a master repository ;-)

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