Hello automakers. A look at:
<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/automake.git/refs/heads> shows that it's probably time to tie up some loose ends there, by removing redundant branches, and turning old and unactive ones into tags. Here is my proposals: * I suggest to turn the branches `master-UNNAMED-BRANCH-UNNAMED-BRANCH' and `master-UNNAMED-BRANCH' into tags, whose names are to be given by the strings returned by `git-describe'. * The branch `branch-real-1-5' points to an ancestor commit (grandfather commit, more specifically) of `branch-1-5', so we can just remove it. * The branches `branch-1-x' (for x = 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) are all old and inactive, the last commit in all of them being the security fix related to CVE-2009-4029; I propose to turn them all into proper tags; any suggestion for which the best names for such tags would be? * The branch `user-dep-gen-merge-branch' is an quite-near ancestor of `user-dep-gen-branch', and long long inactive (~ 13 years), so I propose to remove it. * The branch `user-dep-gen-branch' is untouched by ~12 years; I propose to transform it into a tag (suggested name: `old-user-dep-gen'). * The branch `je-silent', implementing silent-rules support in automake, has been since long merged into maint, and the features it provided have clearly become part of the automake core. So I think we can safely delete it. Opinions, objections? Regards, Stefano