Re: [RFC] Cleaning up automake branches

[Jim Meyering]

Stefano Lattarini wrote:

> Hello automakers.
>
> A look at:
>
>   <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/automake.git/refs/heads>
>
> shows that it's probably time to tie up some loose ends there, by removing
> redundant branches, and turning old and unactive ones into tags.
>
> Here is my proposals:
>
>   * I suggest to turn the branches `master-UNNAMED-BRANCH-UNNAMED-BRANCH'
>     and `master-UNNAMED-BRANCH' into tags, whose names are to be given
>     by the strings returned by `git-describe'.
>
>   * The branch `branch-real-1-5' points to an ancestor commit (grandfather
>     commit, more specifically) of `branch-1-5', so we can just remove it.
>
>   * The branches `branch-1-x' (for x = 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) are all old and
>     inactive, the last commit in all of them being the security fix related
>     to CVE-2009-4029; I propose to turn them all into proper tags; any
>     suggestion for which the best names for such tags would be?

b-1-x or br-1-x would work for me.
It doesn't really matter and is easy to change, if need be.

>   * The branch `user-dep-gen-merge-branch' is an quite-near ancestor of
>     `user-dep-gen-branch', and long long inactive (~ 13 years), so I
>     propose to remove it.
>
>   * The branch `user-dep-gen-branch' is untouched by ~12 years; I propose
>     to transform it into a tag (suggested name: `old-user-dep-gen').
>
>   * The branch `je-silent', implementing silent-rules support in automake,
>     has been since long merged into maint, and the features it provided
>     have clearly become part of the automake core.  So I think we can
>     safely delete it.

I like your suggestions.