Forum OpenACS Development: Removing CVS symbolic tags

Posted by Jeff Davis on 10/07/03 12:48 PM

I am planning to delete some of the symbolic tags in the repository. There are so many now that I think romving some would make it easier to figure out what is in the repository. If you are depending on any of these tags let me know

Anyway, here are the ones I am planning on nuking:

        after-noquote                   (revision: 1.7)
        before-noquote                  (revision: 1.7)
        post-4-6-3b1-head               (revision: 1.7)
        pre-4-6-3b1-head                (revision: 1.6)
        jcd-merge-2                     (revision: 1.3.2.1)
        jcd-premerge                    (revision: 1.3)
        don-merge-1                     (revision: 1.2)
        initial-dev                     (revision: 1.1.1.1)

Anyone know what this one is for? as-2003-04-20 (revision: 1.3.2.5)

To soon to delete but should go at some point soon.

        post-ora9i-port                 (revision: 1.7)
        pre-ora9i-port                  (revision: 1.7)

I would also like to clean out the older release beta tags (like 4.5 and 4.6.1 betas) since I doubt they are of any value to any existing sites.

        oacs-4-6-1-b2                   (revision: 1.3.2.3)
        oacs-4-6-1-b1                   (revision: 1.3.2.2)
        oacs-4-6-beta-1                 (revision: 1.3.2.1)
        oacs-4-5-beta-1-2               (revision: 1.2)
        oacs-4-5-beta-1-1               (revision: 1.2)
        oacs-4-5-beta-1                 (revision: 1.2)

The full list of tags and branches:

        post-ora9i-port                 (revision: 1.7)
        pre-ora9i-port                  (revision: 1.7)
        oacs-4-6-4d1                    (revision: 1.3.2.6)
        openacs-org                     (branch: 1.3.2.6.2)
        oacs-4-6-3-final                (revision: 1.3.2.6)
        oacs-4-6-3-beta2                (revision: 1.3.2.6)
        after-noquote                   (revision: 1.7)
        before-noquote                  (revision: 1.7)
        post-4-6-3b1-head               (revision: 1.7)
        pre-4-6-3b1-head                (revision: 1.6)
        oacs-4-6-3-beta1                (revision: 1.3.2.6)
        as-2003-04-20                   (revision: 1.3.2.5)
        ora9i-patches                   (branch: 1.5.2)
        oacs-4-6-2-final                (revision: 1.3.2.5)
        oacs-4-6-2-b2                   (revision: 1.3.2.4)
        oacs-4-6-2-b1                   (revision: 1.3.2.4)
        oacs-4-6-1-final                (revision: 1.3.2.3)
        oacs-4-6-1-b2                   (revision: 1.3.2.3)
        oacs-4-6-1-b1                   (revision: 1.3.2.2)
        jcd-merge-2                     (revision: 1.3.2.1)
        oacs-4-6-final                  (revision: 1.3.2.1)
        oacs-4-6-beta-1                 (revision: 1.3.2.1)
        jcd-premerge                    (revision: 1.3)
        oacs-4-6                        (branch: 1.3.2)
        oacs-4-5-final                  (revision: 1.2)
        oacs-4-5-rc-1                   (revision: 1.2)
        don-merge-1                     (revision: 1.2)
        oacs-4-5-beta-1-2               (revision: 1.2)
        oacs-4-5-beta-1-1               (revision: 1.2)
        oacs-4-5-beta-1                 (revision: 1.2)
        oacs-4-5                        (branch: 1.2.2)
        initial-dev                     (revision: 1.1.1.1)
        OpenACS                         (branch: 1.1.1)

2: Re: Removing CVS symbolic tags (response to 1)

Posted by Lars Pind on 10/07/03 01:02 PM

Is this a TIP? If so, I approve.

3: Re: Removing CVS symbolic tags (response to 2)

Posted by Jeff Davis on 10/07/03 01:11 PM

Not really a TIP although if it were I guess I would approve too :)

I just wanted to post it here since I wanted to make sure people saw it (and I don't think there are that many people subscribed to the TIP forum yet).

4: Re: Removing CVS symbolic tags (response to 1)

Posted by Don Baccus on 10/09/03 02:50 AM

In my ongoing effort to learn more about CVS than any sane person should know, just how do you nuke a tag?

(I approve too)

5: Re: Removing CVS symbolic tags (response to 4)

Posted by russell muetzelfeldt on 10/09/03 04:58 AM

Don: cvs -d <cvsroot> rtag -d <tag> <module>

I still want to smack whoever decided it'd be a good idea to use the same flags for different things depending on them being "CVS options" or "command options"...

6: Re: Removing CVS symbolic tags (response to 5)

Posted by Joel Aufrecht on 10/09/03 02:39 PM

Could you post the list of tags that would still exist?

If there was a problem, how would you recover? Is it worth it worth making a file-system backup of the cvs tree?

7: Re: Removing CVS symbolic tags (response to 6)

Posted by Jeff Davis on 10/10/03 02:28 PM

If for some reason we needed one of the tags I am planning to delete I could recreate it by pulling it out of one of the backups. I doubt we would really need any of them though. I will make a tarball of the repository though to be safe.

The remaining tags would be:

        post-ora9i-port 
        pre-ora9i-port  
        oacs-4-6-4d1    
        openacs-org (branch)
        oacs-4-6-3-final 
        oacs-4-6-3-beta2 
        oacs-4-6-3-beta1 
        as-2003-04-20
        ora9i-patches (branch)
        oacs-4-6-2-final 
        oacs-4-6-2-b2    
        oacs-4-6-2-b1    
        oacs-4-6-1-final 
        oacs-4-6-final   
        oacs-4-6 (branch)        
        oacs-4-5-final  
        oacs-4-5-rc-1   
        oacs-4-5 (branch)
        OpenACS (Vendor Branch)

Since we are not planning a 4.6.4 release maybe we should delete oacs-4-6-4d1. We can't delete ora9i-patches since it is a branch (although I wish we could). I still don't know where as-2003-04-20 came from but might delete that one as well.