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Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 08:00:40 +0200
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To: Sara Golemon <pollita@php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Removing old branches in php-src
From: krakjoe@gmail.com (Joe Watkins)

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Morning,

I pretty much just echo what Sara said, I'm not sure what harm they are
doing ...

Cheers
Joe

On Mon, 19 Aug 2019 at 04:09, Sara Golemon <pollita@php.net> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 6:06 PM G. P. B. <george.banyard@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > It seems this topic already has been raised a year ago [1] but nothing
> has
> > been done.
> > So I would like to raise the issue again, there are a various of old and
> > empty branches currently in git, would it be possible to remove them?
> >
> > 1/ Which ones *specifically*?  Some release branches are empty only
> because they didn't need to be patched after release (and our release
> process was different).  Some are old and even "abandoned", like the
> first-unicode-implementation, but they serve a useful historical purpose.
>
> 2/ Why?  Git branches are lightweight and don't really impact the project
> in any way beyond enumerations.  I'm not against getting rid of truly
> pointless branches, but I'm also not sure what the appeal is.
>
> -Sara
>

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