[petsc-dev] how to tell if some branch has something useful in it?

[Aron Ahmadia]

Does

git diff barry/reduce-dmsetup-da-memoryusage...master

give you something useful?  Otherwise, you may have to inspect the commits
in the branch to see what they added.

A


On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 7:55 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

>
>   So I found this branch   barry/reduce-dmsetup-da-memoryusage  that has
> not been merged into master.
>
>   How can I tell if it has something useful in it (ie. something that is
> not in master that for example improves the dm?) git diff spews all kinds
> of useless information
>
>    Barry
>
>   Note that we have dozens of branches lying around with forgotten (but
> possibly good stuff in them), how to we mange their lives?
>
>
>
>
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