On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 13:31:04 +0100, Loïc Joly
<loic.actarus.joly@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I read the book about how to make a branch throuugh cheap copy, but
>there is still one thing I'm not sure about:
>
>How is it possible to close a branch ?
Peter answered this.
> When all work is finished on a
>branch, and this branch has been merged with a trunk, I would like to
>prevent anyone from still working in this branch (I guess I could use
>permissions to handle that), and to make sure nobody can see this branch
>ever existed when they look at the HEAD of the repository. Is it a good
>practice to delete the branch in this case?
I think this depends on the branch. If it really makes sense to stop
others from working on the branch, or to stop them from accidentally
assuming the branch is for a different purpose, then it does make
sense to delete it. This would be the case if you create a branch to
try out some particular idea, then eventually merge those changes into
the trunk.
If it's a stable branch containing patches for a release, then this
wouldn't make sense. Even if you have no plans to continue patches
for that release, someone might, someday in the future.
Duncan Murdoch
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Received on Sun Oct 31 15:15:01 2004