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[Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 6:59 AM, Tim Penhey <tim.penhey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:08:05 Martin Pool wrote:
>> On the other hand the overall branch state (as opposed to the mp
>> state) is generally boring and could probably be removed - but it may
>> be worth checking how many people use it to verify that.  I think the
>> code team plan to drop it entirely.
>
> We seriously looked into dropping it completely, but there was a reasonable
> number of people that do use the status.  Primarily for experimental branches,
> but none the less, people do use it.

I still think we can get the same effect through branch naming, and
should ditch explicit branch status.

jml