From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 20:31:06 GMT
Subject: Re: Marking abandoned branches
Message-ID: <46a038f90609131331p25923440w45eb49b56933f24b@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910609131022y19327efy541ac451bdf4b009@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Jon!

I guess what people are pointing at is that you can:

 - run your import
 - publish that as mozilla-historical.git
 - copy that to mozilla.git
 - rm all the old heads from mozilla.git
 - rm all the 'new' heads from mozilla-historical.git
 - run git-repack -a -d on both
 - make the historical repo read-only

later, it is trivial to 'archive'  branch. Similarly, other projects
run a repo-per-developer or perhaps thematic repos. No point in
painting 'policy'  when usage practices suffice.

By the way, gitk doesn't show all the branches by default. You have to
pass --all, which stands for... all ;-)

maybe gitk should have --recent-heads. However, I use
--since=3.months.ago all the time, and it works great.

cheers,


martin