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

Nathan Bijnens nathan at nathan.gs
Wed Feb 18 09:51:54 CET 2015


First make a fork with all history. Afterwards I like Wout's suggestion.

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On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 9:36 AM, Wout Mertens <wout.mertens at gmail.com>
wrote:

> My vote is to remove merged branches without historical significance
> (version 0.5 is a keeper, like upstart), and then any branches that got
> their last push before August 2014 are renamed to attic/...
>
> That should make the github interface easier to navigate.
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