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Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 11:54:26 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Removing old branches in php-src
From: cmbecker69@gmx.de ("Christoph M. Becker")

On 19.08.2019 at 04:08, Sara Golemon wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 6:06 PM G. P. B. <george.banyard@gmail.com> wrot=
e:
>
>> 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 an=
d
>> 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=
.

In my opinion, keeping old release branches is not really that useful;
it is more useful to keep the release tags.

Thanks,
Christoph