[Mesa-dev] abundance of branches in mesa.git

[Brian Paul]

On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 2:41 PM, Jason Ekstrand <jason at jlekstrand.net>
wrote:

>
> On Feb 20, 2016 1:19 PM, "Rob Clark" <robdclark at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > fwiw, I think a *small* number of topic branches in certain cases
> > makes sense..  I'm definitely in support of a TTL limit (ie.
> > automatically nuke topic branches with no activity in N months, or
> > similar..)
>
> I agree. Sometimes something big comes up that's not ready for merging
> such as amdgpu or our recently pushed Vulkan driver.  However, those should
> only be temporary and removed once the work is complete.  I saw a
> "broadwell" branch in there which is probably at least 2 years old and
> completely subsumed by master.  We don't want to be archiving random junk
> in the main tree.
>
> I'd be fine with a timeout system where non-release branches get the boot
> after a certain amount inactivity. If you want to archive something, that's
> what personal git repos are for.
>

I'm OK with deleting old branches too.

I don't know much about git under the hood- would deleting old branches
actually delete the objects on those branches and make the database
smaller?  If so, I'm guessing it probably wouldn't amount to much.

-Brian
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