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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Cleaning 5.3 git branches ?
From: narf@devilix.net (Andrey Andreev)

Hi,

On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 1:14 AM, Johannes Schl=C3=BCter
<johannes@schlueters.de> wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-08-28 at 20:55 +0200, Julien Pauli wrote:
>> Looking at git branches, 5.0, 5.1 and 5.2 still have their respective
>> main branches (which is all right and good).
>>
>> However, they dont have their release branch references (5.1.1 , 5.1.2
>> etc...) , however they still show their own release tags, which is
>> also all right.
>
> For those branches we never had release branches, so there is no wonder
> they don't exist.
>
> I would favor to create a php-src-historic.git repo (or similar) which
> receives all old branches. With PHP 4 and 5.<=3D3 there this also might
> make the initial clone a tiny bit smaller while keeping all history for
> archeologists.
>
> johannes

Tags preserve history well enough, as previously noted - they are
basically immutable branches. This looks like a no-brainer to me.

Cheers,
Andrey.