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: Fri, 06 Nov 2015 15:56:23 +0100 Message-ID: <87twozrxbc.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> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1446823219 27710 80.91.229.3 (6 Nov 2015 15:20:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 15:20:19 +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 Fri Nov 06 16:20:19 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 1ZuioJ-0005mq-OF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2015 16:20:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39338 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuioJ-0001nv-B8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2015 10:20:15 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46325) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zuio4-0001nc-3h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2015 10:20:00 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zuinz-0005ED-FY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2015 10:20:00 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:52217) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zuiny-0005DX-3q; Fri, 06 Nov 2015 10:19:54 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37800 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1Zuinw-0000n7-UJ; Fri, 06 Nov 2015 10:19:53 -0500 Original-Received: by lola (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E8365DF986; Fri, 6 Nov 2015 15:56:23 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Fri, 6 Nov 2015 14:54:58 +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:193424 Archived-At: Juanma Barranquero 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