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:
  1. UbuntuDownUnder/BOFs/BranchDeletion
  2. UbuntuDownUnder/BOFs/LaunchpadBranchManagement
  3. UbuntuDownUnder/ScheduleSaturday

• 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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