On Monday 13 December 2010, Johan Corveleyn wrote: > I'm wondering if there is a (de-facto) standard way of "end-of-lifing" > projects in an SVN repository, or any suggestions for this from other > users on this list ... > > With End-Of-Life I mean there will be no further maintenance on that > project, no more development, no more releases or patches, no more > users. It's really dead. But sometimes one might want to take a look > at the old code, check out its history, maybe even resurrect it, ... > I would like to get those projects out of sight, so it's more clear > what the active projects are. (I'm not talking about "obliterating", > to reclaim disk space or anything like that, quite the contrary: I > want to have them still available, just ... less visible).
Just rm the trunk. You might even want to rm the branches, depending on whether the projects still receive a minimal amount of maintenance. > [...] as we all know, it's not so easy to find a deleted > file/directory/project again (to find out what the latest revision > was in which the project still existed). In that case, you could move it. In any case, the old relocation rule applies. Any box not unpacked after a year should be thrown away without even taking a look at the content. You didn't need it anyway. ;^) Uli -- ML: http://subversion.apache.org/docs/community-guide/mailing-lists.html FAQ: http://subversion.apache.org/faq.html Docs: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/ ************************************************************************************** Domino Laser GmbH, Fangdieckstraße 75a, 22547 Hamburg, Deutschland Geschäftsführer: Thorsten Föcking, Amtsgericht Hamburg HR B62 932 ************************************************************************************** Visit our website at <http://www.dominolaser.com/> ************************************************************************************** Diese E-Mail einschließlich sämtlicher Anhänge ist nur für den Adressaten bestimmt und kann vertrauliche Informationen enthalten. Bitte benachrichtigen Sie den Absender umgehend, falls Sie nicht der beabsichtigte Empfänger sein sollten. Die E-Mail ist in diesem Fall zu löschen und darf weder gelesen, weitergeleitet, veröffentlicht oder anderweitig benutzt werden. E-Mails können durch Dritte gelesen werden und Viren sowie nichtautorisierte Änderungen enthalten. Domino Laser GmbH ist für diese Folgen nicht verantwortlich. **************************************************************************************
