On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Charles R Harris <charlesr.har...@gmail.com
> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Thouis (Ray) Jones <tho...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 1:28 AM, Charles R Harris
>> <charlesr.har...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi All,
>> >
>> > Travis and I agree that it would be appropriate to remove the current
>> 1.7.x
>> > branch and branch again after a code freeze. That way we can avoid the
>> pain
>> > and potential errors of backports. It is considered bad form to mess
>> with
>> > public repositories that way, so another option would be to rename the
>> > branch, although I'm not sure how well that would work. Suggestions?
>>
>> I might be mistaken, but if the branch is merged into master (even if
>> that merge makes no changes), I think it's safe to delete it at that
>> point (and recreate it at a later date with the same name) with
>> regards to remote repositories.  It should be fairly easy to test.
>>
>>
> Looking at the log, the only commits I see are the release notes and a
> backport of bento build fixes. I think it is safe to delete the branch.
>

I think Ray is right, it needs to be merged back into master. If you just
delete it you'll create an issue for people tracking the 1.7.x branch.

Ralf
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