Delete arm-neon branch

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Jeffrey Walton

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Jun 17, 2016, 9:22:57 PM6/17/16
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Hi Everyone,

We have a branch called arm-neon. It was used for the BLAKE2 NEON and ARMv8 CRC implementations. I intended to keep it around for ARMv8 Crypto extensions.

Alas, Git is broken and it appears impossible to use a development branch as expected. "As expected" includes things like maintaining accurate logs. And its impossible to re-use a development branch because w can't seem to sync the development branch with master while maintaining log integrity. Also see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37826188/how-to-generate-a-log-entry-on-master-when-creating-and-deleting-a-dev-branch and https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37892110/how-to-clear-this-branch-is-n-commits-ahead-of-master.

I think we should just delete the arm-neon branch to solve the immediate Git problems.

Looking forward, its not clear to me how to solve the general Git problems. I'm fairly certain development branches are completely broken under Git. As a stop gap, I can run separate local clones for each feature, but I can't share them because GitHub is not setup that way (I can only perform one clone). This is what I did in the past, and this is what some developers in other projects do, like OpenSSL.

Jeff

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