[Mesa-dev] [RFC] Branch maintenance

[Keith Whitwell]

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...

Keith