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

[Steven Newbury]

On Sat, 2016-02-20 at 13:41 -0800, Jason Ekstrand 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.
> --Jason
> 
I think it makes sense to have a publicly accessible archive repo for
nuked feature branches otherwise potentially useful code could just be
lost.

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