Renaming/removing the branch won't have any effect on the tags
[1].
But I don't think renaming it to _Dead is a good idea. If it really
is dead, then why not just delete it? You can always create a branch
from one of the tags if you find that you need the branch again.
[1]
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.branchmerge.maint.html
Dimitris Andreadis wrote:
> I suppose the other option would be to make it read-only in
> authz_svn.conf
>
> Dimitris Andreadis wrote:
>> svn rename is really copy+delete. Do you have any idea if it will
>> affect tags taken out of Branch_5_0? If not, I suppose we can do it.
>>
>> Kabir Khan wrote:
>>>> a) the branch that produced AS 5.0.0.GA should be considered
>>>> "dead". We won't be doing a dot release from this branch
(5.0.1.CR1)
>>>>
https://svn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/branches/Branch_5_0/
>>>>
>>>
>>> Can it be renamed to
>>>
https://svn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/branches/Branch_5_0_DEAD?