Re: Use of git branches

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com> writes:

> Ok, we have a new thread (thanks, Nicolas).
>
> Could we use it to clarify what's the policy on public branches on the repo
> (or, in general, our nettiquete wrt the emacs repo)? (So we can document
> it.)
>
> One thing that I dislike is having 66 branches in git branch -r, of which
> 41 are definitely obsolete (other-branches/* and old-branches/* are, except
> for cairo, between 3 and 18 years old)

git branch --contains master~100

does a pretty good job of weeding out inactive branches.

-- 
David Kastrup