[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] docs: add note about sending merge-requests from forks

[Daniel Stone]

Hi,

On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 at 10:09, Eric Engestrom <eric.engestrom at intel.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, 2019-01-23 10:36:15 +0100, Erik Faye-Lund wrote:
> > Sending MRs from the main Mesa repository increase clutter in the
> > repository, and decrease visibility of project-wide branches. So it's
> > better if MRs are sent from forks instead.
> >
> > Let's add a note about this, in case its not obvious to everyone.
>
> Yes please, we already have way too many dead branches in the main repo
> without adding that kind of things to it.
>
> One other thing is that (last time I checked) the scripts propagating
> the repo to github et al. don't propagate branch deletions, which means
> the clutter never gets cleaned there.

They're propagated from gitlab.fd.o to git.fd.o, as the hook is run
within regular post-receive, but you're right that pushing from
git.fd.o to GitHub doesn't notice old branches, as it just pushes
everything present in the git.fd.o repo to GitHub, and doesn't notice
any branches no longer present.

Cheers,
Daniel