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= Branch deletion =

== Status ==

 * Created: 2005-04-27 by MatthewPaulThomas
 * Priority: NeedsPriority
 * People: NeedsLead, NeedsSecond
 * Contributors: MartinPool
 * Interested:
 * Status: UduBof, LaunchpadSpecification, NewSpec
 * Branch: 
 * Malone Bug: 
 * Packages: 
 * Depends: 
 * Dependents:
 <<FullSearch(BranchDeletion)>>
 * UduSessions: none yet 

== Introduction ==

== Rationale ==

Sometimes people want to delete a branch from a product, so that the branch no longer appears on Launchpad.

== Use cases ==

 * Branch actually contains proprietary data that shouldn't have been published.

 * Branch was created and then abandoned (c.f. 90% of sourceforge)

 * Branch was created in error (e.g. used the wrong name or other commands when creating it; c.f. accumulation of arch branches or usenet groups with misspelled names.)

It would seem there are several levels of deletion: in a very few cases, we really do want to completely forget about the branch.  More usually we want to just mark the branch as "very uninteresting". (Right?)

== Interface design ==

== Implementation ==

== Outstanding Issues ==

 * What do we do with children of the branch? (Probably retain them. "Child" is a vague term for branches that might regularly merge from two or more parents.)
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