[Bioperl-l] move ancient branches to attic

[Heikki Lehvaslaiho]

Rob,

If you think is important, do a survay and create a nice wiki page explaing
these braches to everyone. Then we can discuss if some of them are best
deleted.


    -Heikki

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On 14 May 2010 04:04, Hilmar Lapp <hlapp at drycafe.net> wrote:

>
> On May 13, 2010, at 7:05 PM, Robert Buels wrote:
>
>  The gain is to avoid having useless things hanging around.  Every time
>> somebody has to read through a list of 50 branches to find the maybe 5 that
>> are useful, it's time lost.
>>
>> In other word, it's the same gain that you get from cleaning off your
>> desk, so that you can see where you put things.
>>
>
>
> Hold on - that's not a good comparison is it? First off, this being git,
> the "main" repo is not your desk. You can have your desk and wipe it clean
> of all branches and tags that have ever existed, without affecting, or
> imposing this on, anyone else.
>
> Second, why would you *want* to look through all those branches? This being
> git, you create branches all the time and merge them back, on your own repo,
> right? Where in this workflow are you browsing through the 50 branches of
> the "main" repo all the time?
>
> Third, and maybe I'm just too old, but moving to git because branching and
> having your own clone exactly the way you want it is so easy, only to
> subsequently delete most of the branches on the "main" repo for primarily
> aesthetic reasons just doesn't make much sense to me, honestly.
>
>        -hilmar
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