On Aug 6, 2013, at 2:43 AM, Marvin Humphrey <[email protected]> wrote:
> I was just doing a bunch of tidying up: deleting obsolete branches, etc. Branches are cheap, too (this ain’t SVN). Though I tend to delete branches, too. I have made a habit of using merge commits (--no-ff) for branches, though, so even if a branch is deleted, its path is preserved in the history. > The only advantage is that `git tag` gets cumbersome when there's a > large number of tags, so pruning them makes its output easier to deal > with. Yeah, that’s reasonable. > There's no information lost because in the extremely unlikely event > that we need to go back and look at RC tags, the commit SHA the tag > was aliased to is captured in our mailing list archives: Coolio. David
