>-----Original Message----- >From: Ate Douma [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 9:10 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: Removing Bootstrap Branch > >On 05/15/2012 02:31 PM, Franklin, Matthew B. wrote: >> Now that the bootstrap branch has been integrated into trunk, it needs to >be deleted. Assuming lazy consensus, I will delete the branch today or >tomorrow. > >Although I don't really have an objection to delete that branch, why would it >'need' to be deleted? > >Commonly branches are simply left as they are, retaining east access to their >history for who might need to review it still sometime later. >In this case that might not be so much of a need for, so I'm personally fine >with deleting this branch (or not). But for the more generic case I think it >might be better not making that a default/expected process.
In the case where the branch was created for the purpose of working a large new feature in that would have left trunk in an inconsistent state, I think deletion once completed is appropriate. In this case, the branch has no functional use once the feature is reintegrated. SVN will keep all the history in prior revisions, so we won't lose any information; but, it won't be visible when browsing the HEAD. For other branch cases, I could see leaving it open. In the end, it isn't a big deal either way, unless we get a large number of branches. Thoughts? > >Ate > >> >> -Matt
