RFC: dealing with dead, anonymous feature branches

[Peter Arrenbrecht]

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Rafael Fernández López
<ereslibre at kde.org> wrote:
> ...
> This would be capable (being run on the remote) of removing all kind
> of branches (named and unnamed), having a very similar git behavior.
> We have to take into account the "genie is out of the bottle" problem,
> but in theory this is going to be done in personal repositories before
> they get merged upstream, so I believe this is not a problem.

Well, I think one of the neat things about the dead heads is that they
can actually propagate to those who need to them to prevent further
proliferation of dead branches. It exactly addresses the genie
problem.
-parren