[swift-dev] Cleaning up stale branches?

[John McCall]

> On Oct 21, 2016, at 12:23 PM, Daniel Dunbar <daniel_dunbar at apple.com> wrote:
>> On Oct 21, 2016, at 12:14 PM, Dave Abrahams via swift-dev <swift-dev at swift.org <mailto:swift-dev at swift.org>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> on Fri Oct 21 2016, John McCall <rjmccall-AT-apple.com <http://rjmccall-at-apple.com/>> wrote:
>> 
>>>> On Oct 21, 2016, at 10:39 AM, Dave Abrahams via swift-dev <swift-dev at swift.org <mailto:swift-dev at swift.org>> wrote:
>>>> on Fri Oct 21 2016, Daniel Dunbar <swift-dev-AT-swift.org <http://swift-dev-at-swift.org/>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> While on this topic...
>>>>> 
>>> 
>>>>> GitHub's support for doing cross-repo pull requests is
>>>>> excellent. Anyone can easily fork the main repo, and push to their
>>>>> side repo (for example, with: `git push ddunbar
>>>>> HEAD:name-of-my-new-branch`) and the GitHub web UI on the main repo
>>>>> will automatically show you a handy button for creating the PR.
>>>>> 
>>>>> With this level of support, IMHO branches usually should be pushed to
>>>>> individual's own repos, not the main repo.
>>>> 
>>>> IMO it depends whether you think Swift development should be
>>>> discoverable.  When the Swift project formally engages in developing
>>>> something like the new integer and floating point models, there's an
>>>> advantage to having it in the main repository.
>>> 
>>> I don't understand this argument.  Looking at a list of branches is not a useful
>>> way of discovering development history — you don't know which branches are
>>> still active, which branches were merged, or which branches were completely
>>> abandoned.  
>> 
>> True.  Maybe discoverability isn't the word I was looking for.  When
>> three people want to collaborate on development of a feature branch,
>> where should it live?
> 
> I agree... longer lived high profile branches make sense to me personally, just not short lived "push for purpose of PRing immediately" ones.

Yeah, I agree.  Any sort of *collaborative* branch is 100% okay to live in the main repository.  If you weren't expecting a branch to be a collaboration and it starts turning into one, it's easy to just move it over from your personal fork at that point.

John.
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