[Mono-devel-list] Removing depreciated code from svn

[Ben Maurer]

On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 12:15 +0200, Martin Baulig wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 12:22 -0400, Ben Maurer wrote:
> 
> > I'd like to suggest that we move some depreciated and otherwise dead-end
> > code to trunk/old-code
> 
> Hello,
> 
> given the fact that SVN is a revision management tool (and as such lets
> you go back in history), what's the purpose of moving all the crap into
> a new module ?  Let's just SVN remove that stuff.
> 
> I like the idea of having an old-code module, but let's only keep
> valuable things in there, not something like nant.

It's actually quite hard to retrieve something that was deleted. You
have to find the rev in which it was deleted (basically, you need to svn
log the whole module [!!!]), and then check that out.

Chances are, nobody ever wants to see nant again. However since there is
essentially 0 cost (space wise) to keep it, I see no reason not to.

-- Ben