Re: remove old SVN branches from git repository?

2016-03-07 Thread Tim Graham
I see these branches are documented: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/internals/git/#feature-development-branches. In reading that I saw the mention about a grafts file. I don't entirely understand what that does but when I was reading about it, I saw "As of Git 1.6.5, the more flexible

Re: remove old SVN branches from git repository?

2016-02-24 Thread Markus Holtermann
I'd like to keep them around somewhere. Even if it's just a wiki page which links to the last commits of each branch. When you have a local checkout of a brach that checkout is staying even if the branch is removed on a remote. Also your local references to remote branches are kept unless you

Re: remove old SVN branches from git repository?

2016-02-24 Thread Shai Berger
On Wednesday 24 February 2016 22:46:38 Tim Graham wrote: > They're already in everyone's forks too unless you delete them. True, but I think we should keep them accessible under the project roof. Shai.

Re: remove old SVN branches from git repository?

2016-02-24 Thread Tim Graham
They're already in everyone's forks too unless you delete them. Not sure if deleting them from the main repo would delete them for all forks too. On Wednesday, February 24, 2016 at 3:36:53 PM UTC-5, Florian Apolloner wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, February 24, 2016 at 9:12:19 PM UTC+1, Shai

Re: remove old SVN branches from git repository?

2016-02-24 Thread Florian Apolloner
On Wednesday, February 24, 2016 at 9:12:19 PM UTC+1, Shai Berger wrote: > > If they're a nuisance, I suggest that we clone the Django repo into > another > one under the django organization -- say, "django-historical-branches" -- > before removing them from the main repo. > I was about to

Re: remove old SVN branches from git repository?

2016-02-24 Thread Shai Berger
I think having this history is of value; I had reason to look into the boulder-oracle-sprint branch only a couple of years ago. If they're a nuisance, I suggest that we clone the Django repo into another one under the django organization -- say, "django-historical-branches" -- before removing

remove old SVN branches from git repository?

2016-02-24 Thread Tim Graham
Will anyone miss these branches if we remove them from the repository? I presume they've all either been merged or are so outdated that there isn't value in keeping them. attic/boulder-oracle-sprint attic/full-history attic/generic-auth attic/gis attic/i18n attic/magic-removal attic/multi-auth