deleting stale branches
Mark Ito
Folks,
We have way too many branches on several of our github
repositories. I think that the worst one is halld_recon. There are
523 of them. You can't see the forest for the trees. We did have a
policy
on this at one point, but that has failed, IMHO. On the other hand
I don't think that this state of affairs has bothered us much. No
one has complained about too many branches, at least not that I
have heard of. So you may think that we should leave well enough
alone.
Still, I propose that we do a trim of halld_recon, deleting all
branches that have not had commits pushed to them for over a year.
The list of these branches is attached. There are 412 of them.
Let me know what you think of this proposal.
-- Mark
Michael S
On Mar 3, 2022, at 4:54 PM, Mark Ito <ma...@jlab.org> wrote:
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Mark Ito
Folks,
A couple of updates on the proposal.
If there are any branches that people would like to hold on to,
those would be exempted from deletion. In addition, if one were to
checkout an old branch and push any change whatsoever (including
changes that do not affect functionality) back to GitHub, the age
of the branch gets updated, i.e., it would then be a brand-new
branch and is not subject to deletion.
The statistics I quoted were based on a stale list of branches. The corrected numbers should be 454 branches for halld_recon and 365 of those older than a year. Not a qualitative difference. The revised list of old branches is attached.
-- Mark