Re: Deleting old branches

[Jesse B. <jb...@vi...>]

On Monday, January 12, 2009 3:22 am Tomas Carnecky wrote:
> On 01/09/2009 06:32 PM, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> > Oh, don't use the modesetting-gem branch anymore.  The master branch of
> > the drm tree has all the libdrm bits you need, and Linus' git tree has
> > the kernel mode setting bits you need (even better would be to use Eric's
> > tree, it has a few fixes destined for Linus:
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/anholt/drm-intel
> > drm-intel-next branch).
>
> Many of the fdo and kernel.org trees have such old branches. In git
> these are basically throwaway branches where features are developed. But
> once the branches are merged into master, they have no reason to exist
> anymore. Having them there just confuses people. Would you consider
> deleting some of the old branches?
>
> For example, of the 70 branches in xf86-video-intel, 27 have already
> been merged with master (git branch -r --merged origin/master).

Yeah, we could probably do better at removing old branches.  In the specific 
case of modesetting-gem though (and modesetting-101) we need to keep them 
around, both for reference and because the radeon stuff is still active in 
modesetting-gem afaik.

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Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center