[cvsnt] Re: Remove old files from the repository?

[Glen Starrett]

BEAUCHAMP, MICHAEL J. wrote:
> I have a large web app with about 10,000 files (and growing).  For legal
> reasons, my company wants to remove files or versions of files
> (revisions) that are more than 2 years out of date. So far the only
> thing I've found is the admin -o command and option, but aside from
> being dangerous, I can't figure out a way to do more than one file at a
> time in WinCVS. 

I haven't looked at it, but is the WinCVS method a script?  If it is, 
then you could wrap it with a call for each file in your repository.

> For long term projects, what is the recommended way of managing the size
> of a repository? Should I just start a new repository every so often and
> back up the old ones?

"Get a bigger hard disk" is probably the "official" method, since you're 
talking about the history of your source code files.  That said, I think 
your approach sounds reasonable -- the WinCVS script doesn't delete all 
old revisions, just 'insignificant' ones (no tags / branches attached to 
them) AFAIK.


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Glen Starrett