[mdt-ocl.dev] 'archive' branches

[Ed Willink <ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

I think that we felt that archive branches might be useful for retaining 
the history of a particular branch.

This does not appear to be the case. Once the successful branch is 
rebased onto master, all the relevant history is 'merged', so there is 
no particular use for the archive branch which is just an 
end-of-activity marker. The true history is identifiable from the 
[xxxxxx] commit comment prefixes and the compressed time recap at the 
rebase transaction. If a real marker for the end-of-activity is required 
then a tag is of course possible.

It seems that the only 'bug' branches worth keeping are those that have 
not been exploited, so I propose that

bug/xxxxxx is a work in progress that will probably be exploited
archive/xxxxxx is a work abandoned, that might be revivable later

There should be very few archive/xxxxxx, and only a few bug/xxxxxx.

    Regards

        Ed