On Dec 18, 2007 11:10 PM, Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> 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.

I guess I wasn't considering the historical side of things. What I was
considering is that if you clone mesa, you get a ton of branches, and
it's difficult to know what's relevant now.

--
Dan

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