On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 12:07 AM, Jed Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> Barry Smith <[email protected]> writes: > > > We need a way to organize the “intent” of branches in the > > repository. Are they throw away tests, long term projects, simple > > fixes meant to go into next/master soon …. > > Usually I either refrain from pushing throw-away stuff or totally > incomplete stuff (though sometimes I just name that 'jed/wip-xyz'). I think the names work if we are consistent. I am using 'fix', 'feature', 'remove'. > > Now aside from the names how do we know the intent and history? I’m > > finding branches of mine that should have been merged into next > > months ago and are now so far behind they need to be discarded > > since they cannot be merged. > > You should still be able to rebase them. Or just merge in master. > > Plus how come no mater how many times and ways I try to delete > > origin/barry/fix-get-create I cannot get rid of it? > > If you want to delete a branch on the server, use > > $ git push origin :barry/fix-get-create > Someone needs to hang for this one. Matt -- What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead. -- Norbert Wiener
