What we do at $dayjob is rename old branches old/*.
So we could rename EOL branches this way? E.g.
for branch in branch-2.1 ... ; do
git checkout $branch &&
git branch -m old/$branch &&
git push $origin old/$branch :$branch
done
On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 6:21 PM Nick Dimiduk <[email protected]> wrote:
> Why remove old/unused branches? To keep our garden tidy. They’re
> distracting at best, confusing at worst. For old release line branches,
> it’s not clear to a casual committer which branches need to receive a back
> port. It’s clear if the EOL branches are gone.
>
> On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 18:06 Guanghao Zhang <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > +1 for remove feature branches and start a case-by-case discussion for
> > "others".
> >
> > And for branchs of old release line, what's the harm if keep them? I
> > thought we don't need to remove them.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > 张铎(Duo Zhang) <[email protected]> 于2020年5月21日周四 上午8:14写道：
> >
> > > What is the benefit?
> > >
> > > Nick Dimiduk <[email protected]>于2020年5月21日 周四07:31写道：
> > >
> > > > Heya,
> > > >
> > > > We have lots of branches hanging around in git. These appear to be
> > > > 1. branches for old release lines (i.e., 0.90),
> > > > 2. feature branches (that are potentially stale, i.e., HBASE-11288),
> > > > 3. "other" (i.e., 0.89-fb, former_0.20, revert-1633-HBASE-24221).
> > > >
> > > > Can we decide it's okay to delete some of these?
> > > >
> > > > For (1), all of our release tags, going back to 0.1, are preserved.
> > > There's
> > > > no benefit to keeping these.
> > > >
> > > > For (2), I think there's no discussion required, just someone to go
> > check
> > > > each Jira ID, and delete any that are closed, maybe with a comment on
> > the
> > > > Jira first. Maybe this could be automated?
> > > >
> > > > For (3), I suppose we need a case-by-case discussion? Maybe there are
> > > > categories of these that can be resolved in blocks.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Nick
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
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Best regards,
Andrew
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