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

[Vladimír Čunát]

On 02/18/2015 09:51 AM, Nathan Bijnens 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/...
 >
> First make a fork with all history. Afterwards I like Wout's suggestion.

Removing merged branches doesn't destroy history.
BTW, historically significant versions that aren't meant to be changed 
anymore might better be converted to tags.


Vladimir


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