From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Use of git branches Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2015 09:18:10 +0100 Message-ID: <87lhaaql31.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <20151106085750.28172.54745@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <83bnb7sbiz.fsf@gnu.org> <87bnb73026.fsf_-_@members.fsf.org> <8337wjs8we.fsf@gnu.org> <87twozrxbc.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1446884333 8669 80.91.229.3 (7 Nov 2015 08:18:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 08:18:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Nicolas Richard , Emacs developers To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 07 09:18:52 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Zuyi3-0004ai-Ui for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 09:18:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42527 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zuyi3-0000lw-9G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 03:18:51 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53289) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zuyhz-0000lq-Ne for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 03:18:48 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zuyhy-0003ax-Qg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 03:18:47 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:38495) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zuyhx-0003Zq-AQ; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 03:18:45 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52314 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1Zuyhw-00024N-9a; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 03:18:44 -0500 Original-Received: by lola (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0D427DF47B; Sat, 7 Nov 2015 09:18:10 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Sat, 7 Nov 2015 02:57:50 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:193498 Archived-At: Juanma Barranquero writes: > On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 3:56 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > >> git branch --contains master~100 >> >> does a pretty good job of weeding out inactive branches. > > As a way of listing the branches and excluding old ones, you mean? > > I don't know if that's brilliant or gross ;-) Isn't that the motto on Git's coat of arms? -- David Kastrup