Re: Automatically delete branches containing accepted patches?

From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Aug 28, 2017, 17:32 UTC
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kYKJo4hcBY=nEi6z2gSH=W322W_h3_68bb0ZzF+L8JUig@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <8AF4A868-628B-42AE-B75E-4DF19F7C7A89@gmail.com>

On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 11:44 AM, Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> I have lots of git/git branches and once in a while some patches make it
> into git/git master. If this happens I would like to delete my branch
> with the patch automatically. That's not easily possible as the hashes
> on my branches are, of course, not the same as the hashes on git/git.
>
> How do you deal with this situation? Do you manually delete your
> branches or do you have some clever script to share?

As soon as my patches are picked up, I rename my internal branch to be the same as its remote counter part. Usually I rebase my local branches on these remote branches, such that directly after queuing they are identical.

Usually I delete (local) branches as soon as I am either confident they go in as is or they are not very interesting to me. (e.g. a one off typo fix is developed on detached HEAD, sent out and I forget about it. In case a discussion ensues, I have to either take my patch or redo it. There is no local reminder of these things in the form of a branch)

Stefan

> Thanks,
> Lars