* Jan Engelhardt wrote on Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:01:02PM CET: > On Tuesday 2009-03-24 22:48, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > >> And: once branch-1.11 development finally ceases, it can be deleted. > >> This works because the commits remain reachable via the release tags. > >> If necessary, the branch pointer can simply be recreated. > > > >What would be the advantage of deleting a release branch? > > Maybe, first, to clarify, doing this deletion is only meaningful > when the branch pointer would coincide with a tag. Otherwise you > would lose commits if the bp deviated from what is reachable from > the tag, of course.
The branch pointer would almost never coincide with a tag. The first thing I do after a release is to bump NEWS and configure.ac. This may be a relict from not computing the version number from 'git describe', but I currently don't see the need to go this way. > Hm, less refs to download for the user. Not that those 40 bytes matter ;-) > Seriously, I really thought "whoops" when I was swamped by the lot of > branches [...] The number of release branches will not grow anywhere as quickly here. Thanks, Ralf
