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Re: [Launchpad-users] Best Practice for Merged Branches



On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 11:13 PM, Charlie Poole <charlie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> > Once a public feature branch is merged into trunk, and there is no
>> > further development being done on it, do people generally
>> clean them out - i.e.
>> > remove them?
>> >
>>
>> Launchpad automatically marks them as Merged and then hides
>> them on the user interface by default. I don't know many
>> people who delete them though.
>
> OK...
>
>> For local copies of branches, I delete them when they are
>> merged. I wrote a plugin to make this easier, which you can
>> find at lp:bzr-removable.
>
> My working trees are separate from my shared repository, so I
> can easily delete them. Can I safely delete the branch
> subdirectories in the repository as well?
>

You can safely. However, if your working trees are separate from your
branches, I'd just leave the branches there. They don't take up much
room, probably don't clutter the directory listings you are interested
in, and might be handy to have in the future.

jml



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