[ckan-dev] Cleaning up old branches

Adrià Mercader adria.mercader at okfn.org
Fri Mar 1 10:09:03 UTC 2013


I'm also happy to delete all bug-, feature-, etc and also probably all
the ones with 4 digit issue number (from trac)


Adrià



On 28 February 2013 15:48, Toby Dacre <toby.okfn at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 28 February 2013 15:27, Vitor Baptista <vitor at vitorbaptista.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> As we use feature branching in our day-to-day workflow, we end up with lots
>> of branches (482 so far). Some (lots?) are useful, but many are just
>> garbage. Mainly code that's already merged into master. The command:
>>
>>> git branch -r --merged
>>
>>
>> gives me 287 branches that are already merged into master (I ignored
>> release*, stable and ultrastable). They should be safe to delete.
>
> The clean the old branches is a long held dream
>
> I think we should delete all the merged  bug-..., feature-...,
> enhancement-.. ones as they will be quite old what do others think
>
> but yes we should try to keep stuff clean
>>
>> I agree that this is not that important, and that it might be safer to leave
>> it as is. Maybe remove them some time in the future. What I would like to
>> ask is only that, whoever merges a pull request, please also delete its
>> branch.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Vítor.
>>
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