[cvsnt] deleting branches?????

[Keith D. Zimmerman]

that is what I would do, but for one small issue - we use viewcvs.  as
the number of branches in the repository grows, the pages take longer to
load.  our initial conversion from source safe--->>>cvsnt had many many
obsolete tags, and the pages would take *very* long to load.

Is there a way to mark a branch deprecated?

keith d. zimmerman, mcsd 
eagle solutions

-----Original Message-----
From: John Peacock [mailto:jpeacock at rowman.com] 
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 9:50 AM
To: Keith D. Zimmerman
Cc: cvsnt at cvsnt.org
Subject: Re: [cvsnt] deleting branches?????


keith d. zimmerman wrote:
> Ok, so i make a branch, work on it for three months - merging from the
trunk on
> occassion, of course - and merge back into the trunk.  Branch
development is
> complete, the new feature is enabled, and (hopefully) the regular
releases have
> not been screwed.  Now what happens to my branch?

All branch information is maintained within the repository; just ignore
it.  The 
whole idea behind a version control system is to be able to recreate any
point 
in time, including branches.  The recommended methodology is to create a
tag at 
the last point before the branch gets merged to the HEAD, so that you
can go 
back to that point easily.

HTH

John