Re: [Monotone-devel] Suspending branches

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 06:20:51PM -0500, Timothy Brownawell wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 17:04 -0600, Derek Scherger wrote:
> > Timothy Brownawell wrote:
> > > Here's a list of all nvm* branches, by whether they've been merged into
> > > some other branch and the date on the latest head. I'd think that we
> > > could also suspend most of the 'M' ones from this year.
> > 
> > I was just wondering whether we could "suspend" these without actually
> > suspending them. i.e. could we just not list a branch by default if its
> > heads all have descendants and all of these descendants are not in the
> > branch or something? I have a very vague recollection of talking about
> > this a long while ago but don't remember where we ended up with it.
> 
> That's probably not good, since it would hide eg viewmtn and usher,
> which both have their most recent revisions merge-into-dir'd into
> webhost.
> 
> Hiding branches as a result of that sort of thing isn't a behavior I
> think we want.

Not to mention that the trunk would regularly disappear every time
someone pulled in trunk changes to a branch.

-- Nathaniel

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