RE: WinCVS - deleting a branch

 > Arthur Barrett writes on 06:04 PM 5/23/2008
> > This may go past WinCVS into CVS territory.  Is there a way to delete
> > a branch?  We created one accidentally and it's now an orphan.  I
> > suppose too if you had an experimental code branch for R&D that didn't
> > pan out you might want to delete that branch that even had leafs on
> > it.  Is it possible to delete branches?
>
>cvs -d :protocol:host:/repo rtag -dB module

Thank you.  From this method I assume there isn't a direct way in 
WinCVS to do this.  It seems like it might be a logical choice in the 
Graph view in the Admin menu.

>Regardless of whether a revision was experimental or not those revisions
>are a part of the history of the code being managed so in my opinion
>should never be deleted.

I see it this way for some situations, but there are others where the 
branch data has no value and it only clutters the Graph view and 
takes up disk space (and presumably time to process the data in the 
,v files, forever).

>There are ways to delete revisions in CVS but we don't like to talk
>about that (it's for experts only and the definition of an expert is
>knowing how to use it).

I've used this on single files.  It doesn't work perfectly (I've had 
to edit the entries file a couple of times) so I wouldn't talk about 
it any more than saying this. :)

>Note: these sort of questions should be directed to the CVSNT newsgroup
>or CVS newsgroup depending on the server you are using (remember CVSNT
>runs on linux/unix/mac too - by 'server' I mean which CVS/CVSNT server,
>not the OS server).  The command I've given above for removing a branch
>is for CVSNT 2.5.03.2382.

Ok.  Thanks.  It's on topic here from the point of view that I don't 
see a way in WinCVS (excluding the command line) to do this.

Thanks and take care,

Bill


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