On Dec 19, 07 09:38:35 -0500, Zack Rusin wrote: > On Wednesday 19 December 2007 09:20:06 am Matthias Hopf wrote: > > I very much agree on that. Partially, this is a problem with git, which > > does not show you which of the branches are already completely merged > > into another branch (read: might be dead). > > Well, that's not how it works. Git knows exactly the merge points, but what > you call a "dead" branch in Git is one that doesn't exist. In this particular
I think I made that clear. No, there is no notion of dead branches in gti. But yes, there *are* dead branches. Just git doesn't know about it, but it *could* guess about it. And yes, they can always be revived. > As to the relevance of the branches it's easy to check by doing > "git log origin/branchname". And in any way the thing about branches is that > you need to know what you're looking for otherwise just making the number of > them smaller so that people can randomly be checking them out is not helping > the situation. I don't call that easy. It takes a lot of time, especially with >50 branches. Git could easily add a (+) or so after a branch if it is completely merged in a different branch and that has been more than - say - two weeks ago. Or even hide it (with or without some option). > While I agree that the branches which are not developed anymore should be > deleted, realistically speaking someone would have to go back and see whether > the CVS import actually encoded in the history when a branch X has been > actually *merged* into master, otherwise, as Michel pointed out, we'll be > just losing history and that's likely not worth it. Losing history is never worth it, right. But maybe we can get some idea of what is needed in git to have it better distinguish between (truly) live and (eventually) dead branches. CU Matthias -- Matthias Hopf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ __ __ Maxfeldstr. 5 / 90409 Nuernberg (_ | | (_ |__ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone +49-911-74053-715 __) |_| __) |__ R & D www.mshopf.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Mesa3d-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mesa3d-dev
