TopGit: How to retire obsolete topic branches?

[Frédéric Brière]

martin f krafft <madduck at debian.org> wrote:
> > 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.

Yeah, but it'll remain in your refs/heads namespace forever, won't it?
Kinda sucks to have git-branch spew out every patch that's ever existed.
:(

(Oh well, life can't be perfect.)


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