Re: Use of git branches (was: [Emacs-diffs] master 2b316c0: ; * CONTRIBUTE: Add section about the bug tracker)

[Juanma Barranquero]

Ok, we have a new thread (thanks, Nicolas).

Could we use it to clarify what's the policy on public branches on the repo (or, in general, our nettiquete wrt the emacs repo)? (So we can document it.)

One thing that I dislike is having 66 branches in git branch -r, of which 41 are definitely obsolete (other-branches/* and old-branches/* are, except for cairo, between 3 and 18 years old)

Among the non-(old|other) branches there are also a few (the last four in this list) that seem too less than active:

origin/master                                            28 minutes ago

origin/concurrency                                        3 days ago

origin/fix/no-undo-boundary-on-secondary-buffer-change    8 days ago

origin/scratch/isearch-show-toggles                       8 days ago

origin/xwidget_mvp                                        2 weeks ago

origin/scratch/dbusbind-type-tests                        9 weeks ago

origin/scratch/dbusbind-type                             10 weeks ago

origin/emacs-24                                           3 months ago

origin/stream                                             3 months ago

origin/scratch/project                                    4 months ago

origin/scratch/quote-escaping                             4 months ago

origin/scratch/dynamic-modules-2                          5 months ago

origin/scratch/remove-internal-field                      6 months ago

origin/scratch/highlight-n-windows                        7 months ago

origin/scratch/fix-info-dups                              7 months ago

origin/shr-fontified                                      9 months ago

origin/xwidget                                            9 months ago

origin/scratch/xref                                      10 months ago

origin/dynamic-modules-rc2                               11 months ago

origin/nsm                                               12 months ago

origin/emacs-23                                           2 years, 9 months ago

origin/pending                                            3 years, 7 months ago

origin/gtk-tabs                                           5 years ago

origin/x-tabs                                             5 years ago

I know that some old branches (though not all) are perhaps of historical interest. But, isn't there any way to remove them and yet keep their content from being pruned? Tags or something?