Hi Kristian, Thanks for raising this issue. Amount of branches is painful indeed. A few comments from my side.
First, your list seem to be quite outdated. Did you run git remote prune origin? At the moment of writing https://github.com/MariaDB/server says there're 124 branches. At least the following branches don't seem to exist anymore: > origin/bb-10.1-systemd 1 year ago Sergey > Vojtovich <s...@mariadb.org> > origin/bb-svoj 1 year, 1 month ago Sergey > Vojtovich <s...@mariadb.org> > origin/bb-10.1-atomics 1 year, 10 months ago Sergei > Golubchik <s...@mariadb.org> > origin/bb-lf-no-oom 1 year, 10 months ago Sergei > Golubchik <s...@mariadb.org> > origin/bb-lf-iterator 1 year, 11 months ago Sergey > Vojtovich <s...@mariadb.org> > origin/bb-no-ndb 2 years, 3 months ago Sergei > Golubchik <s...@mariadb.org> > origin/bb-10.2-mdev10813 MDEV-10813 Closed > origin/bb-10.2-mdev5492 MDEV-5492 Closed > origin/bb-10.2-MDEV-6720 MDEV-6720 Closed > origin/bb-10.2-mdev9857 MDEV-9857 Closed > origin/bb-10.2-mdev7660 MDEV-7660 Closed > origin/bb-mdev6089 MDEV-6089 Closed > origin/bb-mdev7715 MDEV-7715 Closed > origin/bb-mdev7728 MDEV-7728 Closed > origin/bb-mdev7793 MDEV-7793 Closed > origin/bb-mdev7894 MDEV-7894 Closed > origin/bb-mdev7895 MDEV-7895 Closed > origin/bb-mdev7922 MDEV-7922 Closed > origin/mdev-8380 MDEV-8380 Closed > origin/svoj-gittest 1 year, 6 months ago Sergey Vojtovich > <s...@mariadb.org> Second, I strongly suggest not to remove anything without branch owner approval. Potential data loss overweights clean-up benefits. At least the following branches may have valuable revisions: > origin/10.1-spider 1 year, 1 month ago Michael > Widenius <mo...@mariadb.org> > origin/10.0-power 1 year, 7 months ago Sergey > Vojtovich <s...@mariadb.org> On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 01:26:07PM +0100, Kristian Nielsen wrote: > We currently have more than 200 branches in the MariaDB Server github repo, > most of which look like they are no longer used. I would like to remove the > unused ones to remove clutter. Eg. in `git branch -la` or the drop-downs on > the github webpage. > > Below is a list of a little less than two-thirds of the branches that I > determined to be probably unused. I was fairly conservative in my criteria, > ie. if there was reasonable doubt, I omitted a branch from the list to > delete. > > Please take a look at the list and see if there is any branch that should > _not_ be deleted from the github repository. Or if someone objects to > deleting anything on principle grounds, let me know as well, of course. > > (I Cc'ed people that were the last to commit on a branch to be deleted). > > Note that if one of these branches should become needed again later, > eg. some bb-XXX branch not used for a long time, there is no problem > re-creating it. The only problem with removing a branch should be if it > contains contents that will be needed in the future, and which is not > available anywhere else (and I tried to avoid putting such branches on the > list in the first place). > > Also note that once these are deleted, a simple `git pull` will not remove > them from the local clone. The `git fetch --prune` can be used to effect > this. > > If there are no objections, I will do the deletions in two weeks. > > - Kristian. ...skip... Regards, Sergey _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers Post to : maria-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
