Re: Git conversion: disposition of old branches and tags

[Richard Biener]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 7:09 PM, Florian Weimer <f...@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
> * Jason Merrill:
>
>> 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.
>
> Just one minor comment: Due to the way Git branches work, this
> decision can be deferred to some extent (existing clones will keep
> renamed or removed branches if they were part of the initial clone).
>
>> 1) Keep them at the same place.
>
> So 1) is probably the best initial choice.
>
>> 3) Delete them.
>
> Unlike Subversion branch deletion, Git branch deletion is permanent,
> so this might not be the best option.