On 12/23/2011 11:08 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: > Stefano Lattarini wrote: > >> Hello automakers. >> >> A look at: >> >> <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/automake.git/refs/heads> >> >> shows that it's probably time to tie up some loose ends there, by removing >> redundant branches, and turning old and unactive ones into tags. >> >> Here is my proposals:
>> * The branch `je-silent', implementing silent-rules support in automake, >> has been since long merged into maint, and the features it provided >> have clearly become part of the automake core. So I think we can >> safely delete it. >> Done. >> * I suggest to turn the branches `master-UNNAMED-BRANCH-UNNAMED-BRANCH' >> and `master-UNNAMED-BRANCH' into tags, whose names are to be given >> by the strings returned by `git-describe'. >> Done. >> * The branch `branch-real-1-5' points to an ancestor commit (grandfather >> commit, more specifically) of `branch-1-5', so we can just remove it. >> Done. >> * The branches `branch-1-x' (for x = 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) are all old and >> inactive, the last commit in all of them being the security fix related >> to CVE-2009-4029; I propose to turn them all into proper tags; any >> suggestion for which the best names for such tags would be? > > b-1-x or br-1-x would work for me. > It doesn't really matter and is easy to change, if need be. > Done (with a really messy process and lots of back-and-forth, all due to mistakes and confusion of mine; my apologies to the readers of the `automake-commit' list!) >> * The branch `user-dep-gen-merge-branch' is an quite-near ancestor of >> `user-dep-gen-branch', >> Only that it's not (my mistake again). I haven't touched it then, since for today I have tweaked and tortured our poor repo enough already. But Jim, if you want to go ahead and fix this yourself, please be my guest ;-) Otherwise I will tackle it another day. >> and long long inactive (~ 13 years), so I propose to remove it. >> >> * The branch `user-dep-gen-branch' is untouched by ~12 years; I propose >> to transform it into a tag (suggested name: `old-user-dep-gen'). >> Ditto. Thanks, Stefano
