TopGit: How to retire obsolete topic branches?

[Manoj Srivastava]

On Thu, May 07 2009, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:


> When I, as a newcomer of a given repo, do "git tag" I know I'm looking
> at a lot of "not current" information. On the contrary, when I do "git
> branch" I start trying figure out what each branch means. Having
> around a lot of no longer used branches is very annoying in that
> respect.

__> cd /usr/local/git/debian/libselinux/libselinux-2.0.80      ~/var/spool/mail
[master]__> git branch                                                ~base_dir
* master
  old-debian
  old-devo
  old-ia64-fix
  old-pkg-config
  old-tls-fix
  old-upstream
  pristine-tar
  test--init-static-variables
  test--tls-fix
  topic--debian
  topic--pkg-config
  upstream


        Sometimes, just a sane convention is enough.

        manoj
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