[impdev] Important note for those who use git

[Aleric Inglewood]

On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Aleric Inglewood
<aleric.inglewood at gmail.com> wrote:
> however-- if you still  have branches laying around*)

Ah, I forgot add that footnote...

*) It came to my attention that many developers have a lot
of old branches laying around that are long merged in
and are simply outdated and old.

Please remove them!

A safe way to remove a branch locally is:

git branch -d BRANCHNAME

which will complain if that branch wasn't merged completely.
However, if it wasn't, but you still are sure you won't use it
anymore, you can delete it with 'git branch -D BRANCNAME'

However, this does NOT remove that branch from github!

To see all remote branches, type:

git branch -r

This will list ALL remote branches, not just your own.
Hopefully now you will understand why it's nice to
delete you old branches from github: they pollute this
output for everyone (and their tags are laying around
in everyone's 'gitk' output and equivalent) AND they
heavily pollute the Network feature results on github :(

Lets assume you see YOURNAME/OLDBRANCH
and you wish to remove it. Then type:

git push YOURNAME :OLDBRANCH

Note the leading semi-colon in front of :OLDBRANCH!
YOURNAME is your (exporting) remote.

Thanks for cleaning up!
Aleric


(Ie, and those are JUST the people I'm following; the
Network output of github is polluted by EVERYONE):

  arminw/1.2.1-linux64
  arminw/1.2.2-linux64
  arminw/1.3-mplugins-exp
  arminw/1.3.0beta4-linux64
  arminw/ATlayers
  arminw/HPA-backup
  arminw/LinksMultiple
  arminw/RC1
  arminw/RC3-test
  arminw/SNOW-375
  arminw/V2CacheTest
  arminw/beta2-bugfixes
  arminw/cherries-0
  arminw/m-plugins-wip
  arminw/m-plugins-wip-water
  arminw/mccabe-plugins
  arminw/media-plugins
  arminw/more-exp
  arminw/plugins
  arminw/settings-wip
  arminw/very-experimental
  arminw/water-wip
  export/SNOW-713
  export/webkit_plugins
  jacek/1.2-maint
  jacek/1.3-maint
  jacek/SNOW-713
  jacek/fonts
  jacek/hpa-backup
  jacek/landmarks-nav
  jacek/login-manager
  jacek/mcnext-rebase
  jacek/msh
  jacek/mutegroupchat
  jacek/nokdu
  jacek/qarl-align
  jacek/wip-stereo
  mccabe/1.2.0-autovoicedisengage
  mccabe/1.3-ao
  mccabe/1.3-buildoptionstexturefix
  mccabe/1.3-fb5-login
  mccabe/1.3-fweekly-transandspell
  mccabe/1.3-llimage2.0.2
  mccabe/1.3-loginretry
  mccabe/1.3-mutegroupchat
  mccabe/1.3-snapshotdefaultname
  mccabe/1.3-stars
  mccabe/1.3-waterflickers
  mccabe/1.3.0-armincherries
  mccabe/1.3.0-skinselection
  mccabe/1.4-fexp-featurettes
  mccabe/1.4-fexp-mediaplugins
  mccabe/1.4-openalfixtest
  mccabe/flexisculpts
  mccabe/snow-347
  mccabe/webkit_plugins
  robin/SNOW-713
  robin/aleric_webkit
  robin/mccabe-plugins
  robin/plugins_merge
  robin/webkit
  robin/weekly-webkit