[petsc-dev] close ts-fixes branch?

[Lisandro Dalcin]

On 25 March 2010 13:03, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Mar 2010, Lisandro Dalcin wrote:
>
>> On 25 March 2010 01:14, Kai Germaschewski <kai.germaschewski at unh.edu> wrote:
>> > Fine with me (I'm the one who introduced it originally).
>> >
>> > My off-topic 2 cents: I hate reply-to headers.
>> >
>>
>> BTW, I think this is an example of bad usage of mercurial branches...
>> You should use a separate clone for these kind of tasks. Mercurial
>> branches would make more sense for release versus development,
>> although even PETSc does not uses this model. IMHO, creating a branch,
>> push some fixes, merge back to default, and close branch is just
>> repository pollution.
>
> yes - we use clones as branch model [even for releases] - and should
> avoid in-repo branches..
>

Any way to COMPLETELY prune a in-repo branch? Unlikely, right?


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