RFC: dealing with dead, anonymous feature branches

Martin Geisler mg at aragost.com
Sat May 8 03:34:41 CDT 2010


Dirkjan Ochtman <dirkjan at ochtman.nl> writes:

> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 20:00, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
>> [1] It might be worth dropping dead heads from tag calculation
>
> Release branch with release tags, release end-of-lifed, tags gone.
>
> I'm not sure it's a good idea.

I don't think such a branch should be marked dead unless you really
don't want people to get it when cloning.

If they should not get the changesets in a clone, then I think it makes
some sense that the changesets do not contribute tags. Though I'm not
sure :-)

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