Re: [cdt-dev] Deleting obsolete branches

[Aleksandar Kurtakov <akurtako@xxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Doug Schaefer" <dschaefer@xxxxxxx>
> To: "Aleksandar Kurtakov" <akurtako@xxxxxxxxxx>, "CDT General developers list." <cdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2014 5:01:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [cdt-dev] Deleting obsolete branches
> 
> What's a dead git repo? As long as it has content that someone may want, we
> can't really get rid of it.

If that's the case - my mistake. 
>From names and activities some of them(old,master) looked more like leftovers from some experiments.


Alexander Kurtakov
Red Hat Eclipse team

> 
> Doug.
> 
> ________________________________________________________________________
> From: Aleksandar Kurtakov <akurtako@xxxxxxxxxx<mailto:akurtako@xxxxxxxxxx>>
> Date: Mon Jul 28 2014 09:48:47 GMT-0400 (EDT)
> To: CDT General developers list.
> <cdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:cdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>>
> Subject: Re: [cdt-dev] Deleting obsolete branches
> 
> Please consider also removing dead git repos
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=434613 while cleaning up.
> Alexander Kurtakov Red Hat Eclipse team ----- Original Message ----- > From:
> "Marc Khouzam" <marc.khouzam@xxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:marc.khouzam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>>
> > To: "CDT DEV (cdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx)"
> <cdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:cdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>> > Sent: Monday, July 28,
> 2014 4:38:01 PM > Subject: Re: [cdt-dev] Deleting obsolete branches > > Hi,
> > > following-up on this minor cleanup of some of our old branches. I'm
> about to > push the following branch/tag > changes to the CDT repo. > > The
> history for branch sd90 can be found from its final merge point: >
> 5a04c15baab806be23f95c343c75659f4158db78 > I therefore deleted ‘sd90’ which
> was pointing to a commit already on master. > It can be re-created from that
> commit. > > I replaced the branch GDBStandalone with a tag ‘GDBStandalone’,
> which I > verified, does keep the history. > I replaced 'bug_197989' with a
> tag 'OldSolution_bug_197989'. I believe this > code was obsoleted by branch
> > 'bug_197989_B' (c2cec226b35aeae02216daa1153727b95419e215), but I wasn't
> sure > if the old history could > be useful, so I kept it. > > I deleted
> ‘MultiProcess’ and ‘NewMultiProcess’ which had been created by > mistake and
> whose code was > pushed to master shortly after. > > I deleted
> 'bug_197989_B' which was merged in master at >
> c2cec226b35aeae02216daa1153727b95419e215 > I deleted 'bug_299911' which was
> merged in master at > e39899ec2329c1b44c7a77c520ba3cf2481d6d76 > I deleted
> 'bug_45203' which was merged in master at >
> 48c9cc0b7377f236440209733bea0e6f8753ae9e > > There a bunch of cdt_*_*
> branches also. I think those should be converted > into tags (if those tags
> don't > exist already). I haven't done that just yet but maybe later. Let me
> know > if you disagree. > > Thanks > > Marc > > > From:
> cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> [mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On > Behalf Of Marc Khouzam > Sent:
> Friday, July 25, 2014 2:14 PM > To: 'CDT General developers list.' >
> Subject: Re: [cdt-dev] Deleting obsolete branches > > Thanks Andrew, that is
> a good point I hadn’t considered. > > In the case of sd90, it was merged
> into master, so the history will remain; > in fact, the branch sd90
> (9bc85c77a33) > is actually a commit on the master branch, so it does not
> add much value > (unless it is being used as a tag?) > > I think (but I’ll
> check to be sure) that the other branches are in the same > situation,
> except for the GDBStandalone, > which was not merged, but something like
> squashed into a single commit.  In > that case, keeping the branch > seems a
> good idea so as to not loose the history. > > If I used a tag instead of a
> branch, would it be as effective in keeping the > history?  It would allow
> to keep our > branches to a minimum and yet, have all the history.  I’ll
> look into it. > > Thanks for the quick answers > > From:
> cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> [mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On > Behalf Of Andrew Gvozdev > Sent:
> Friday, July 25, 2014 1:53 PM > To: CDT General developers list. > Subject:
> Re: [cdt-dev] Deleting obsolete branches > > Hi Marc, > sd90 branch should
> stay in repository as it keeps the history of changes. > Master branch does
> not keep that history as it was a merge, not rebasing or > cherrypicking. >
> > Thanks, > Andrew > > On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Marc Khouzam
> <marc.khouzam@xxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:marc.khouzam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> > wrote: > Hi
> (mostly Jeff, Mikhail, Andrew and Sergey), > > I had a quick mishap with the
> repo this morning which required me to remove a > branch I had pushed by
> mistake. > This made me think I could take the opportunity to clean up some
> old branches > that seem useless. > I find that the more clutter we have in
> CDT, the harder it is for new-comers > to figure how things work. > > After
> investigation I'd like to start with the below. > Let me know if you want to
> keep those branches. > > remotes/origin/GDBStandalone  (I believe this was
> made as a new commit that > was pushed to master) > >
> remotes/origin/MultiProcess (created by mistake, feature is in master) >
> remotes/origin/NewMultiProcess (created by mistake, feature is in master) >
> > remotes/origin/sd90 (merged into master) > remotes/origin/bug_197989_B
> (merged into master) > remotes/origin/bug_299911 (merged into master) >
> remotes/origin/bug_45203 (merged into master) > > remotes/origin/bug_197989
> (seems obsolete, replaced by _B branch which went > into master) > > Thanks
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