[Nix-dev] Why are there so many branches in the nixpkgs repo

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 16/02/15 18:43, Matthias Beyer wrote:

> what do you think about removing the old branches, as listed below (I
> guess all before 12-2014 or something) should be removed,...

No, they should not be removed, unless they were merged. Deleting history kind
of defeats the purpose of having a version management system...

However, we could rename dead branches to something like attic/<name>.

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