Re: Removing old branches in php-src

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 >