On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 22:40 -0800, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> There are quite a few branches in the mesa repo that haven't seen a
> commit in many years.
> 
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/refs/heads
> 
> I may be missing something, but it seems like it would be nice to
> clean up some branches that have no chance of being committed to
> again. Some that come to mind: autoconf, experimental-1, mesa (I'm not
> really sure at all what this was for) and any of the mesa_x_y_branch
> branches prior to probably 6. To delete branches from the remote repo,
> just do
> 
> git push origin :branchtodelete
> 
> where having the empty refspec on the left side of the colon means
> that an empty revision is being pushed to that branch.
> 
> What do you guys think?

I'm not sure what we'd gain in exchange for losing history. At the very
least, I think such branches should be preserved in a separate
legacy/history repository.


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Libre software enthusiast         |          Debian, X and DRI developer


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