FYI: I’ve retroactively created tag 2.38.0 since that’s a release which seems to contain most executables also for Windows which the current builds does not. See this issue . I would like to remove a lot of useless tags names in the repo that disturbs me when listing tags: ~/graphviz$ git tag -l un…

If you can’t see any usages of them, sure, let’s remove them. Can always roll back if it causes issues?

[image] mark: Can always roll back if it causes issues? Nope. Tags are gone forever. At least after GC.

What’s the downside? I’m not sure about the capability any more to get old versions of graphviz source code. We used to archive a lot of old source.tgz files in our server in AT&T. John Ellson would be the only person that could still have copies.

My 2c: I would leave them, as tags are more or less free. And we can’t easily see who/what is relying on them. Are they causing problems? Note, there are a few outstanding open issues requesting missing tags for past versions. I have not attempted to resolve these because I couldn’t figure out whic…

John found the Historical Documents on a USB drive, and will upload to www2.graphviz.org I’m all in favor of removing tags we don’t need, particularly ones with the prefix “untagged”

[image] smattr: My 2c: I would leave them, as tags are more or less free. And we can’t easily see who/what is relying on them. Are they causing problems? I’m aware of that. No problems except that they annoy me when I list tags since they obscure the actually useful tags and I very often do t…

[image] smattr: Note, there are a few outstanding open issues requesting missing tags for past versions. I have not attempted to resolve these because I couldn’t figure out which untagged commits older versions were created from. I can do if you like. Otherwise: Check the history of autogen…

Clean out useless tags?

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Ellson July 2, 2020, 1:36am 7

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