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

[Barry Smith]

  Like all the changes made in master since it split off which is tons of stuff and totally irrelevant

   Barry

On Dec 9, 2013, at 10:07 PM, Aron Ahmadia <aron at ahmadia.net> wrote:

> Does 
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> git diff barry/reduce-dmsetup-da-memoryusage...master
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> give you something useful?  Otherwise, you may have to inspect the commits in the branch to see what they added.
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> On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 7:55 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
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>   So I found this branch   barry/reduce-dmsetup-da-memoryusage  that has not been merged into master.
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>   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
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>    Barry
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>   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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