Re: Old branches
| From: | Christoph M. Becker | Date: | Fri, 10 Aug 2018 10:53:48 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Old branches | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.internals |
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On 30.07.2018 at 10:35, Gabriel Caruso wrote:
> Recently, while checking some branches, I’ve noticed that we have really
> old branches out there in php-src:
>
> 15+ years old:
>
> - experimental/RETURN_REF
> - experimetnal/RETURN_REF_PATCH
> - experimental/pre_new_hash_func
> - experimental/zts_stdc_scanners
> - experimental/rand_redesign
> - migration/EXPERIMENTAL
> - experimental/namespaces
> - migration/unlabaled-1.67.2
> - experimental/ZendEngine2
> - experimental/apache_hooks
> - experimental/apache_hooks
> - migration/unlabaled-1.3.2
>
> 10+ years old:
>
> - migration/unlabaled-1.29.2
> - migration/INITIAL
> - migration/sqlite-start
>
> Not even 5 years old, but no commit:
>
> - str_size_and_int64_56_backport
> - native-tls
> - zend-signal-zts
>
> Not even 2 years old, but no commit:
>
> - microseconds
>
>
> Do we keep them for a reason, like history, or we should delete, remaining
> just the versions branches?
In my opinion, it would be sensible to delete all useless branches, i.e.
those which are completely stale, or have no commit.
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Christoph M. Becker