On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 7:02 AM, Herbert Duerr <h...@apache.org> wrote: > On 15.11.2012 10:33, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: >> >> On 15.11.2012 00:10, Rob Weir wrote: >>> >>> I see that our project is growing new branches. Would it make sense >>> to start documenting these on a wiki page, so it is clear what each >>> one is, and who is maintaining it? >>> >>> Current branches are: >>> [...] >>> >>> writer001/ -- Ditto. What is it and what is the plan for getting it >>> integrated? >>> >> >> It has been already integrated into trunk [1]. > > > Should we remove branches that have been integrated? > > There is a minor nit that speaks against it, but that is not critical: SVN > merges all the changes as one commit so that the individual commits that > were done on the branch are not visible in the log of the merge target, they > are only visible in the branch that was integrated. Removing this branch > does not lose the individual history though as the branch is still in the > revision history even if it is no longer in the head revision. > > So I suggest that dead/closed/integrated branches are removed. >
Or, if we want the history more obvious, maybe move to an "integrated" folder? or rename so they start with "_integrated-" (so they sort together)? -Rob > Herbert
