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

[Jose Fonseca]

On 22/02/16 02:59, Eric Anholt wrote:
> Brian Paul <brian.e.paul at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> People pulling down the repository fresh wouldn't get any objects that
> existed only in the old branches.  For those of us with existing clones,
> the tracking branch would stay around until we do a git prune, and then
> the objects would stay around until git gc.
>
> There's an argument for keeping branches that aren't merged, in case
> someone wants to pick the work back up again.  But then, almost all
> branches of that type are in personal repositories, anyway.

I don't disagree, but one problem of using personal repos for 
development history is that personal directories on fdo.org aren't being 
backed up.



 > I wouldn't
> miss topic branches that have been left around in the main tree.


FWIW, I'm deleting a bunch of llvmpipe branches and other branches I 
worked on that have no value.


Jose