Re: [gentoo-catalyst] culling the catalyst repo branches

["Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@gentoo.org>]

On 10/5/15 11:19 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 05 Oct 2015 22:46, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
>> On 10/5/15 10:36 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>> On 05 Oct 2015 22:25, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
>>>> Okay time to do some cleanup.  I want to nuke the catalyst_2 and
>>>> catalyst_3 branches.  dol-sen is going to take care of pending and 3.0.
>>>> I have no idea what write-on-master and tar-volume-label are so my
>>>> feeling is to nuke those too unless someone speaks up and said, wait NO!
>>> rather than delete branches (and thus history), how about we move them to
>>> a "old/" or "dead/" namespace ?  then it'd be:
>>> 	refs/heads/
>>> 	|-- 2.x
>>> 	|-- 3.0
>>> 	|-- master
>>> 	`-- old
>>> 	    |-- catalyst_2
>>> 	    |-- catalyst_3
>>> 	    |-- rewrite-on-master
>>> 		`-- tar-volume-label
>> yeah even better, except i'm not sure how to do nested branches like
>> that.  i'll google it.
> that part is simple :).  there's nothing special with refs.
>
> create a copy first:
> $ git push origin -n remotes/origin/catalyst_2:refs/heads/old/catalyst_2
> To git+ssh://git@git.gentoo.org/proj/catalyst.git
>   * [new branch]      origin/catalyst_2 -> old/catalyst_2
>
> then delete the old one:
> $ git push origin -n :refs/heads/catalyst_2
> To git+ssh://git@git.gentoo.org/proj/catalyst.git
>   - [deleted]         catalyst_2
> -mike

All done.

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