[Bioperl-l] move ancient branches to attic

[Chris Fields]

To me, this is more a problem with the way forks currently work in github, via automatically dup-ing all branches vs allowing a single branch ('master', for instance).  In fairness, that makes sense if they're implementing this the way I think, in order to conserve space.  There are other small issues on github that should be worked out, for instance the automatic addition of all collabs with pull requests, since these go to bioperl-guts now.  At least, I got a dup email from the last pull request.

Some fixes are supposedly being planned for group-like accounts, just don't know when they'll appear.  But I think the overall benefits of github outweigh some of the bumps in the road we're seeing.

chris

On May 14, 2010, at 8:32 AM, Jay Hannah wrote:

> On May 13, 2010, at 5:46 PM, Hilmar Lapp wrote:
>> Why? What is the gain from deleting branches that you don't know whether they are dead or not?
> 
> If our branch list was clean they wouldn't dupe up when I go to merge in other people's contributions.
> 
> You don't find large lists of probably dead things annoying?
> 
> Jay Hannah
> http://biodoc.ist.unomaha.edu/wiki/User:Jhannah
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> jhannah at cplreynoldslpt:~/src/bioperl-live$ git remote add vinanna git://github.com/vinanna/bioperl-live.gitjhannah@cplreynoldslpt:~/src/bioperl-live$ git fetch vinanna
> remote: Counting objects: 18, done.
> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (9/9), done.
> remote: Total 10 (delta 8), reused 0 (delta 0)
> Unpacking objects: 100% (10/10), done.
>> From git://github.com/vinanna/bioperl-live
> * [new branch]      TRY_featureio_refactor -> vinanna/TRY_featureio_refactor
> * [new branch]      TRY_gff_refactor -> vinanna/TRY_gff_refactor
> * [new branch]      TRY_locatableseq_refactor -> vinanna/TRY_locatableseq_refactor
> * [new branch]      anydbm-branch -> vinanna/anydbm-branch
> * [new branch]      bioperl    -> vinanna/bioperl
> * [new branch]      bioperl-branch-1-5-1 -> vinanna/bioperl-branch-1-5-1
> * [new branch]      bioperl-live -> vinanna/bioperl-live
> * [new branch]      branch-06  -> vinanna/branch-06
> * [new branch]      branch-07  -> vinanna/branch-07
> * [new branch]      branch-07-ensembl-120 -> vinanna/branch-07-ensembl-120
> * [new branch]      branch-1-0-0 -> vinanna/branch-1-0-0
> * [new branch]      branch-1-2 -> vinanna/branch-1-2
> * [new branch]      branch-1-2-collection -> vinanna/branch-1-2-collection
> * [new branch]      branch-1-4 -> vinanna/branch-1-4
> * [new branch]      branch-1-5-2 -> vinanna/branch-1-5-2
> * [new branch]      branch-1-6 -> vinanna/branch-1-6
> * [new branch]      branch-ensembl-m1 -> vinanna/branch-ensembl-m1
> * [new branch]      branch-experimental -> vinanna/branch-experimental
> * [new branch]      featann_rollback -> vinanna/featann_rollback
> * [new branch]      internal-branch-pre-delete-06-tag -> vinanna/internal-branch-pre-delete-06-tag
> * [new branch]      lightweight_feature_branch -> vinanna/lightweight_feature_branch
> * [new branch]      master     -> vinanna/master
> * [new branch]      ontology-cache -> vinanna/ontology-cache
> * [new branch]      release-0-04-bug -> vinanna/release-0-04-bug
> * [new branch]      restriction-refactor -> vinanna/restriction-refactor
> * [new branch]      stable-0-05 -> vinanna/stable-0-05
> * [new branch]      stable-0-05-new -> vinanna/stable-0-05-new
> * [new branch]      steve_chervitz -> vinanna/steve_chervitz
> * [new branch]      topic/bug_2515 -> vinanna/topic/bug_2515
> jhannah at cplreynoldslpt:~/src/bioperl-live$ git branch -a
> * master
> remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master
> remotes/origin/TRY_featureio_refactor
> remotes/origin/TRY_gff_refactor
> remotes/origin/TRY_locatableseq_refactor
> remotes/origin/anydbm-branch
> remotes/origin/bioperl
> remotes/origin/bioperl-branch-1-5-1
> remotes/origin/bioperl-live
> remotes/origin/branch-06
> remotes/origin/branch-07
> remotes/origin/branch-07-ensembl-120
> remotes/origin/branch-1-0-0
> remotes/origin/branch-1-2
> remotes/origin/branch-1-2-collection
> remotes/origin/branch-1-4
> remotes/origin/branch-1-5-2
> remotes/origin/branch-1-6
> remotes/origin/branch-ensembl-m1
> remotes/origin/branch-experimental
> remotes/origin/featann_rollback
> remotes/origin/internal-branch-pre-delete-06-tag
> remotes/origin/jhannah
> remotes/origin/lightweight_feature_branch
> remotes/origin/master
> remotes/origin/ontology-cache
> remotes/origin/release-0-04-bug
> remotes/origin/restriction-refactor
> remotes/origin/stable-0-05
> remotes/origin/stable-0-05-new
> remotes/origin/steve_chervitz
> remotes/origin/topic/bug_2515
> remotes/origin/yapc10hackathon
> remotes/vinanna/TRY_featureio_refactor
> remotes/vinanna/TRY_gff_refactor
> remotes/vinanna/TRY_locatableseq_refactor
> remotes/vinanna/anydbm-branch
> remotes/vinanna/bioperl
> remotes/vinanna/bioperl-branch-1-5-1
> remotes/vinanna/bioperl-live
> remotes/vinanna/branch-06
> remotes/vinanna/branch-07
> remotes/vinanna/branch-07-ensembl-120
> remotes/vinanna/branch-1-0-0
> remotes/vinanna/branch-1-2
> remotes/vinanna/branch-1-2-collection
> remotes/vinanna/branch-1-4
> remotes/vinanna/branch-1-5-2
> remotes/vinanna/branch-1-6
> remotes/vinanna/branch-ensembl-m1
> remotes/vinanna/branch-experimental
> remotes/vinanna/featann_rollback
> remotes/vinanna/internal-branch-pre-delete-06-tag
> remotes/vinanna/lightweight_feature_branch
> remotes/vinanna/master
> remotes/vinanna/ontology-cache
> remotes/vinanna/release-0-04-bug
> remotes/vinanna/restriction-refactor
> remotes/vinanna/stable-0-05
> remotes/vinanna/stable-0-05-new
> remotes/vinanna/steve_chervitz
> remotes/vinanna/topic/bug_2515
> 
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