Stefano Lattarini wrote: > 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?
b-1-x or br-1-x would work for me. It doesn't really matter and is easy to change, if need 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. I like your suggestions.