[python-committers] New ncoghlan-bpo-29537-NEWS branch?

[R. David Murray]

On Thu, 09 Mar 2017 18:32:13 +0000, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Mar 2017 at 04:07 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 9 March 2017 at 19:30, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Do we need need a kind of sandbox repository for experiments?
> >
> >
> > Mine aren't experiments, they're temporary branches from using the online
> > editor for minor fixups (GitHub doesn't give you the option to put those in
> > your fork if you have merge access on the main repo).
> >
> 
> In general I expect none of those branches to live longer than 24 hours as
> the PRs they were created for should be merged in less than an hour. If a
> branch is older than a day then it means someone probably forgot to delete
> the branch after merging a PR.

If it isn't already in the devguide (I have to admit I haven't really
read the new guide yet), once you end up pulling one of those branches
into your remotes, it will stay there until you do:

    git remote prune <upstream>

The above will delete any local copies of branches that have been
deleted in <upstream>.

--David