RE: Deleting a branch....

[Gurpreet Singh (SCM)]

Thanx Max.

Well just Replied to the Mail...... agreed - should have been "To All".

Regards ^^
Gurpreet S

-----Original Message-----
From: Max Bowsher [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 7:05 PM
To: Gurpreet Singh (SCM); address@hidden
Subject: Re: Deleting a branch....


You sent this to me privately. Please don't do that - if you had sent it to
the list, someone else might have replied by now.

Gurpreet Singh (SCM) wrote:
> Thanks Max.
> Then can we regulate the branch to be created or not... like can we define
> priveleges who can create the branch/tag ?
> How can we put check  on it.

There are 3 possibilities:

1) It may be sufficient that anyone who can commit, can branch. If so, a
readers or writers file should suffice.

2) Use the hook scripts in CVSROOT to control access. IIRC, there is a
cvs_acls included in the distro.

3) Corey Minyard's ACL patch.

NB: I have never used any of these myself, so consider this as a pointer to
further research.


Max.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Max Bowsher [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 9:55 PM
> To: Gurpreet Singh (SCM); address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Deleting a branch....
>
>
> Gurpreet Singh (SCM) wrote:
>> Hi All
>>
>> This is regarding deleting a branch, thus created on a Module.
>> Is there any specific method / decription in doing it so ?
>>
>> Well I tried to untag it  ^ with the following command
>>
>> cvs rtag -d BranchName ModuleName
>> Is this the only way to do so......?
>>
>> Moreover, All the subfolders were not untagged / say deletion of branch
>> completely... ?
>
> Deleting a branch is not usually a good idea.
>
> Simply untagging (rtag -d) saves virtually no space in the repository,
> because all the revisions remain there, but they are now anonymous and
> inaccessible except by revision number on an individual file basis.
>
> So, basically, don't delete branches.
>
>
> Max.