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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Cleanup of old remote branches
From: timwolla@bastelstu.be (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Tim_D=FCsterhus?=)

In git a branch simply is a pointer to a commit. If a branch is deleted
the commit wil stay in the repository for the near future, but it will
eventually be deleted (by git prune / git gc) as it is not referenced by
anything.

Tim

On 31.10.2013 04:32, Robert Williams wrote:
> In Subversion, nothing is ever really deleted. If you delete a branch, it still exists in the repository's history, and it can easily be resurrected with history intact. Is this not the way git works? (I'm obviously not real familiar with git.)
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> Bob Williams
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>> On Oct 30, 2013, at 10:00, "Adam Harvey" <aharvey@php.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On 29 October 2013 03:56, Julien Pauli <jpauli@php.net> wrote:
>>> Could we make a list of the remote branches we really don't need anymore,
>>> and clean them up ?
>>
>> Also -1 here. Command line tab completion and GitHub's branch
>> filtering UI basically make the cognitive overhead of dealing with
>> this minimal, and having a full history is important.
>>
>> Adam
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