From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Pruning dead branches Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2022 20:30:07 +0200 Message-ID: <83czk99ivk.fsf@gnu.org> References: <875yqa6zz7.fsf@gnus.org> <865yq1kvqv.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87v8y186gq.fsf@gnus.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="15102"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, juri@linkov.net To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 30 19:32:51 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nEF0M-0003oG-Vt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 30 Jan 2022 19:32:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41768 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nEF0L-0007zs-NV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 30 Jan 2022 13:32:49 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:34152) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nEEyn-0006W4-3T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Jan 2022 13:31:13 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=52204 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nEEyk-0002Ts-H4; Sun, 30 Jan 2022 13:31:12 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=zE8B+xnbE5o0EgJAWiJePD7gnEM9FPpl++TWiaBWewg=; b=qSWnuDNB5e1Y S+D0msyQQ4nfigDWBj3nEiv5yVqdI+kk0Bl+1VygvTyem0X4UpPu5H8ewFKbeBtuQvHKI3KqW1ixa dDxymlrSdHoEvWbVmBK6jn5Wq31LSHMD4XSLabB3cOo8aMOmEVZrSh8WE6r4geKwkQS/ZEGoAbLby /dCRWYKhWlETpYeoVAOlEqmwHoWJGDvL0VyqjbFQBt390wz8bCt8A/oeKuzsoaWTWGW9SL2LMqA3b X+50oxk8D19ysN0C/jlLNNXqGjUhPFstev0Gnm+UFkkcm0BtVZqooKNASvgovMLCkpGpOICKYHheL bXGAKEfRPvie2ikjrjdABA==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=3629 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nEEyD-0000kQ-Fz; Sun, 30 Jan 2022 13:31:06 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87v8y186gq.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Sun, 30 Jan 2022 18:43:33 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:285628 Archived-At: > From: Lars Ingebrigtsen > Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2022 18:43:33 +0100 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Juri Linkov writes: > > > I deleted my merged branches. But for unmerged old branches, > > is it ok to move them to old-branches with: > > > > git push origin origin/name:refs/heads/old-branches/name :name > > If the code is never going to be merged, then deleting the branches > would be best, I think? But I have no strong opinion here. Eli? Yes, we should not keep old branches that have no value. If they do have some value, I see no reason to rearrange them -- just leave them alone. (Perhaps we should have some etc/BRANCHES file with short descriptions of the branches we want to keep indefinitely.)