[FFmpeg-devel] Deleting oldabi branch

Derek Buitenhuis derek.buitenhuis at gmail.com
Mon Jul 8 20:52:07 CEST 2013


On 7/7/2013 4:50 PM, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> I guess fairly close to removing the branch is making configure only print an error message and exit.
> Actually, even closer would be to remove all files - but that's maybe overkill, but it would at least keep the history and possibly reduce the size of future --depth 1 checkouts (though I am a bit unclear on the interaction between that and branches).

There's not really any problem with leaving old branches around... e.g.
old, supported release branches.

The history is valuable.

- Derel


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