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[Simon McVittie]

On 17/02/15 11:22, Alexandre Detiste wrote:
> Then I realized I had still 2 unmerged branches:
> - steam (auto-magical packager)
> - doom2-launcher (for master levels)
> 
> I pushed those to Alioth before they get lost.

If you have branches that are not ready for merge, I would prefer you to
use a personal repository, either on Alioth (~/public_git/whatever.git,
e.g. http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/users/smcv/dbus.git/ is one of mine)
or off-site (Github or whatever).

> I guess someday we'd ask an admin to prune all these dead branches.

IMO the fact that we would need to do manual repo surgery (or ask a
sysadmin) indicates that this is not desirable.

gnome.org git has a nice convention where branches matching wip/* can be
force-pushed and deleted by any committer, with users encouraged to use
wip/smcv/* or something. I don't know whether Alioth has anything similar.

    S