TopGit: How to retire obsolete topic branches?

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Frédéric Brière <fbriere at fbriere.net> [2009.05.06.2016 +0200]:
> I don't think this addresses the same issue, though.  This is about
> making sure that a topic branch can be safely deleted even when other
> branches depend on it.  IOW, it's purely a TopGit issue.
> 
> My concern is what to do once the above has been done, to avoid breaking
> tg-cleanexport.  As I said, I would either need to keep the (empty)
> topic branch around forever, or override TG_BRANCHES forever, no?

I think as soon as a branch is folded in the way pasky suggests, the
TopGit diff would be empty, and tg-export knows not to dump empty
patches, so effectively the branch would be retired.

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