[impdev] Important note for those who use git
Aleric Inglewood
aleric.inglewood at gmail.com
Sat Nov 27 07:53:20 PST 2010
Currently I have:
>git branch -r
aleric/SNOW-440
aleric/weekly
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/hpa-again
arminw/m-plugins-wip
arminw/m-plugins-wip-water
arminw/master
arminw/mccabe-plugins
arminw/media-plugins
arminw/more-exp
arminw/plugins
arminw/robin-plugins_merge
arminw/settings-wip
arminw/very-experimental
arminw/water-wip
arminw/weekly
elektra/weekly
jacek/1.2-maint
jacek/1.3-maint
jacek/SNOW-713
jacek/fonts
jacek/hpa-backup
jacek/landmarks-nav
jacek/login-manager
jacek/master
jacek/mcnext-rebase
jacek/msh
jacek/mutegroupchat
jacek/next
jacek/nokdu
jacek/qarl-align
jacek/weekly
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/master
mccabe/next
mccabe/snow-347
mccabe/webkit_plugins
mccabe/weekly
origin/HEAD -> origin/master
origin/master
origin/next
origin/weekly
robin/IMP-711-wip
robin/SNOW-713
robin/aleric_webkit
robin/libvlc-media-wip
robin/master
robin/mccabe-plugins
robin/next
robin/plugins_merge
robin/webkit
robin/weekly
robin/weekly-webkit
Clean up those old branches people! Once they are fully merged it's
just a pointer
to OLD code. It's confusing and polluting things here and there.
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Aleric Inglewood
<aleric.inglewood at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 and are simply outdated and old.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
>
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