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

[Domen Kožar]

I've cleaned up some merged branches.

On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 9:05 AM, Rok Garbas <rok at garbas.si> wrote:

> > > However, we could rename dead branches to something like attic/<name>.
> >
> > Yes, that's sounds better than what we have now. Alternatively, we
> > could make a "historic" repo clone (like Nathan Bijnens suggests).
> > nixpkgs-historic? Then we have an option to clean up some less used
> > branches/tags in the mainline repo.
> >
>
> +1 on the "historic" (or "archive") clone where we would keep all history.
>
> this is usually normal way when working with any git/hg projects repos when
> they grow to "big" (to big in size of history) and its taking long time to
> do
> the initial clone. usually when developing a project you're only
> interested in
> last year or two of history at most.
>
> it is not that this must be done, but it would definetly not hurt anybody.
> history is not lost and main development repo becomes "lighter" to work
> with.
>
>
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