Hi devs, after the TP 3.1.1 release was managed by Stephen, we had to clean up / delete a lot of branches that were no longer needed. We used to delete branches as soon as we were done with the work on it, but at some point Apache disabled the functionality to delete branches and so we ended up with a lot of dead branches.
For the cleanup I've used a simple shell script that checks the status of the respective Jira ticket and if it's closed, the branch is assumed to be no longer needed and will be deleted. This is the script: for branch in $(git branch -r | grep -Po 'TINKERPOP[3]?-.*') do jira=`sed 's/TINKERPOP3/TINKERPOP/' <<< $branch | grep -Po 'TINKERPOP-[0-9]*'` status=`curl -s https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/$jira | grep -A1 status-val | grep -Po '(?<=>)[^<]*(?=)' | head -n1` if [ "$status" == "Closed" ]; then git push origin --delete $branch fi done Do people like the idea of running this script as part of the release process? In this case developers would no longer need to remember to delete development branches; however naming conventions would become even more important AND tickets should only be closed after the branch was merged. Cheers, Daniel
