Gentoo Archives: gentoo-catalyst

From: "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o>
To: gentoo-catalyst@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] culling the catalyst repo branches
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2015 03:13:55
Message-Id: 56133C6A.1000200@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] culling the catalyst repo branches by "Anthony G. Basile"
1 On 10/5/15 10:46 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
2 > On 10/5/15 10:36 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
3 >> On 05 Oct 2015 22:25, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
4 >>> Okay time to do some cleanup. I want to nuke the catalyst_2 and
5 >>> catalyst_3 branches. dol-sen is going to take care of pending and 3.0.
6 >>> I have no idea what write-on-master and tar-volume-label are so my
7 >>> feeling is to nuke those too unless someone speaks up and said, wait
8 >>> NO!
9 >> rather than delete branches (and thus history), how about we move
10 >> them to
11 >> a "old/" or "dead/" namespace ? then it'd be:
12 >> refs/heads/
13 >> |-- 2.x
14 >> |-- 3.0
15 >> |-- master
16 >> `-- old
17 >> |-- catalyst_2
18 >> |-- catalyst_3
19 >> |-- rewrite-on-master
20 >> `-- tar-volume-label
21 >> -mike
22 >
23 > yeah even better, except i'm not sure how to do nested branches like
24 > that. i'll google it.
25 >
26 Okay its pretty easy. I'm not going to use gitnamespaces(7) but just
27 copy the branches to branches named old/catalyst_2 etc which will give
28 the above structure. This will keep the history but the branches will
29 show up as "old/catalyst_2" on gitweb.g.o under branch.
30
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32 Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
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