[Mesa-dev] [RFC] Branch maintenance

[Dan Nicholson]

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 6:06 AM, Jakob Bornecrantz <jakob at vmware.com> wrote:
> On 2010-04-23 13.03, Keith Whitwell wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 04:12 -0700, Jakob Bornecrantz wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> So mesa has a fair bit of branches just laying around not doing
>>> anything. I wrote a quick script that prints the branch name and the
>>> number of commits that this branch has which are not on the master
>>> branch. I have attached a full list but here is a random short list:
>>>
>>> gallium-s3tc: 0
>>> gallium-sampler-view: 0
>>> gallium-screen-context: 3
>>> gallium-softpipe-winsys: 1
>>> gallium-st-api: 0
>>> gallium-st-api-dri: 0
>>> gallium-strict-aliasing: 0
>>> gallium-sw-api: 6
>>> gallium-sw-api-2: 0
>>> gallium-targets: 0
>>> gallium-tex-surfaces: 0
>>> gallium-texture-transfer: 0
>>> gallium-tgsi-semantic-cleanup: 0
>>> gallium-util-format-is-supported: 1
>>> gallium-vertex-linear: 0
>>> gallium-vertexelementcso: 0
>>> gallium-wgl-rework: 0
>>> gallium-winsys-handle: 7
>>> gallium-winsys-handle-rebased: 0
>>> gallium-winsys-private: 1
>>>
>>> Quite a fair bit branch that has no special commits, is it okay to
>>> remove those? I know this a bit of throwing a stone in a glass house
>>> considering I'm responsible for a fair bit, 4 of those just from the
>>> list in the mail.
>>>
>>
>> I've been removing dead branches for quite a while now as I find them&
>> have motivation.  Certainly I think we can remove all the "zero"s...
>>
>
> Right, hmm it looks like git doesn't remove local remote branches
> automatically, so my list is quite outdated. Here is a updated list, have
> removed one zero branch that was mine. And I'm probably am going to remove
> gallium-winsys-handle (which got rebased).

FYI, "git remote prune", "git pull --prune" and "git fetch --prune"
can handle this for you.

--
Dan