Re: [Nix-dev] Why are there so many branches in the nixpkgs repo

2015-02-22 Thread Bjørn Forsman
On 22 February 2015 at 18:05, Rok Garbas r...@garbas.si wrote: However, we could rename dead branches to something like attic/name. Yes, that's sounds better than what we have now. Alternatively, we could make a historic repo clone (like Nathan Bijnens suggests). nixpkgs-historic? Then we

Re: [Nix-dev] Why are there so many branches in the nixpkgs repo

2015-02-22 Thread Domen Kožar
I've cleaned up some merged branches. On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 9:05 AM, Rok Garbas r...@garbas.si wrote: However, we could rename dead branches to something like attic/name. Yes, that's sounds better than what we have now. Alternatively, we could make a historic repo clone (like Nathan

Re: [Nix-dev] Why are there so many branches in the nixpkgs repo

2015-02-22 Thread Bjørn Forsman
On 17 February 2015 at 10:44, Eelco Dolstra eelco.dols...@logicblox.com wrote: Hi, On 16/02/15 18:43, Matthias Beyer wrote: what do you think about removing the old branches, as listed below (I guess all before 12-2014 or something) should be removed,... No, they should not be removed,

Re: [Nix-dev] Why are there so many branches in the nixpkgs repo

2015-02-22 Thread Rok Garbas
However, we could rename dead branches to something like attic/name. Yes, that's sounds better than what we have now. Alternatively, we could make a historic repo clone (like Nathan Bijnens suggests). nixpkgs-historic? Then we have an option to clean up some less used branches/tags in the

Re: [Nix-dev] Why are there so many branches in the nixpkgs repo

2015-02-21 Thread Matthias Beyer
On 18-02-2015 22:20:21, Vladimír Čunát wrote: On 02/18/2015 09:51 AM, Nathan Bijnens wrote: My vote is to remove merged branches without historical significance (version 0.5 is a keeper, like upstart), and then any branches that got their last push before August 2014 are renamed to

Re: [Nix-dev] Why are there so many branches in the nixpkgs repo

2015-02-18 Thread Nathan Bijnens
First make a fork with all history. Afterwards I like Wout's suggestion. --- nat...@nathan.gs | nathan.gs http://nathan.gs?utm_source=footerutm_medium=emailutm_campaign=n | @nathan_gs http://twitter.com/nathan_gs | linkedin.com/in/nbijnens On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 9:36 AM, Wout Mertens

Re: [Nix-dev] Why are there so many branches in the nixpkgs repo

2015-02-18 Thread Wout Mertens
My vote is to remove merged branches without historical significance (version 0.5 is a keeper, like upstart), and then any branches that got their last push before August 2014 are renamed to attic/... That should make the github interface easier to navigate.

Re: [Nix-dev] Why are there so many branches in the nixpkgs repo

2015-02-18 Thread Vladimír Čunát
On 02/18/2015 09:51 AM, Nathan Bijnens wrote: My vote is to remove merged branches without historical significance (version 0.5 is a keeper, like upstart), and then any branches that got their last push before August 2014 are renamed to attic/... First make a fork with all

Re: [Nix-dev] Why are there so many branches in the nixpkgs repo

2015-02-17 Thread stewart mackenzie
Might I ask, what is the point of stale code not being executed? And if code is being written to sit stale on a branch, isn't that wasted talent? Lastly (if there is no renaming attic/name) it just confuses people. Having code merged into a canonical branch asap makes for faster feedback cycles

Re: [Nix-dev] Why are there so many branches in the nixpkgs repo

2015-02-17 Thread Eelco Dolstra
Hi, On 16/02/15 18:43, Matthias Beyer wrote: what do you think about removing the old branches, as listed below (I guess all before 12-2014 or something) should be removed,... No, they should not be removed, unless they were merged. Deleting history kind of defeats the purpose of having a

Re: [Nix-dev] Why are there so many branches in the nixpkgs repo

2015-02-16 Thread Matthias Beyer
Hi nixos maintainers, what do you think about removing the old branches, as listed below (I guess all before 12-2014 or something) should be removed,... On 14-02-2015 13:47:40, Bjørn Forsman wrote: List of all nixpkgs branches, sorted by date, and with the name of the commiter that pushed the

Re: [Nix-dev] Why are there so many branches in the nixpkgs repo

2015-02-16 Thread Domen Kožar
I disagree, even if branches are old, we should not just delete them. We could go over a list of those that are merged (git branch -r --merged master), but still for example 'upstart' is a branch that was taken before systemd has replaced it. Maybe it should be a tag. On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at

Re: [Nix-dev] Why are there so many branches in the nixpkgs repo

2015-02-16 Thread Marc Weber
We could go over a list of those that are merged (git branch -r --merged master), but still for example 'upstart' is a branch that was taken before systemd has replaced it. Maybe it should be a tag. I made the suggestion that too experimental branches / new ideas etc could be submitted to

[Nix-dev] Why are there so many branches in the nixpkgs repo

2015-02-14 Thread Matthias Beyer
Hi, why are there so many branches in the nixpkgs repo? I mean, what are they are for? Maybe we should remove some of them,... I don't think, for example, that 0.5-stable upstart or test-1515 are even relevant anymore, are they? -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Kind regards, Matthias