On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 04:11:26PM -0700, John Ralls wrote: > > On Apr 11, 2014, at 4:02 PM, David Osguthorpe <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 03:10:22PM -0700, John Ralls wrote: > >> I’d like to delete most of the old feature branches from the repository, > >> but I don’t want to lose the history, so I’ve created a new branch called > >> “archive” and merged in the feature branches in the right order. > >> > >> Having the “heads” of those branches merged into archive means that the > >> branches themselves can be removed without having the commits that belong > >> to them garbage collected, preserving history. > >> > >> There are still a few abandoned branches that were never merged. I propose > >> to leave them and the release branches in place, though there are two > >> release branches, xacc-10-patch and xacc-12-patch, that I’d like to rename > >> to 1.0 and 1.2 so that they’ll be consistent. > >> > >> Any comments or complaints? > >> > > > > An approach Ive used to clean up the git branch print out while retaining > > the old heads > > is to move the refs into another refs directory out of the heads directory > > (git branch only prints from ref/heads by default) > > > > eg this first copies any refs with the string _cvs from refs/heads into > > refs/cvs > > then deletes those same references from refs/heads > > (I didnt think of this - found it after some googling) > > > > git for-each-ref --format='%(refname:short)' refs/heads | grep _cvs | > > xargs -n 1 -I {} git update-ref refs/cvs/{} {} > > > > git for-each-ref --format='%(refname:short)' refs/heads | grep _cvs | > > xargs -n 1 -I {} git branch -D {} > > Neat. We could do that with the 1.X branches as well and have an easily > navigable list. Know of any reason not to do it with old tags as well? >
I dont see why not - but have not done it - refs/tags is essentially the same semantics as refs/heads David _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
