Repository has a large number of pointless branches

[per1234]

This makes the project less friendly to contributors and maintainers.

[ubidefeo]

Time for a Purge?

[kittaakos]

I have cleaned up all my branches, the rest belong to someone else.

[per1234]

Thanks Akos!

I even found a leftover one of mine from months ago, which I have now removed from both repos.

Strangely, the main branch shows up as one of my branches. I certainly didn't intentionally create it, and I can't think of how I would have done it accidentally, but I'm fine with deleting that one (to be created again by renaming master before the repo goes public) if nobody else needs it.

[kittaakos]

emoved from both repos.

I intentionally left all the branches in the old repo.

Strangely, the main branch shows up as one of my branches.

I have noticed that too. I propose merging #4 and switch to the main now. What do you think?

[per1234]

I intentionally left all the branches in the old repo.

Mine was completely worthless (I just forgot to delete it after the PR was merged).

I propose merging #4 and switch to the main now. What do you think?

As long as the default is changed to main and the master branch is removed before the repo is made public, I don't care too much when it happens. However, I have had some problems with this transition in default branch names in other repos because it's easy to miss some places where master was used, and I also just have master in my muscle memory so I even end up introducing new usages of it after the transition. So it might be good to make the change sooner than later so we have time to discover any things that need to be changed to main.

[kittaakos]

I don't care too much when it happens.

I prefer changing it now or ASAP because:

• at the moment, we do not have PRs against the master branch,
• we do not have to change the base for PRs, and
• we could spot issues earlier not when we want to push the go public button.

[per1234]

@rsora this one is yours: https://github.com/arduino/arduino-ide/tree/rsora/nightly-changelog
Is it still relevant? From this: https://github.com/bcmi-labs/arduino-editor/pull/147 it seems like no.

@sebromero this one is yours: https://github.com/arduino/arduino-ide/tree/sebromero/app-icon
Is it still relevant? From this: https://github.com/bcmi-labs/arduino-editor/pull/167 it seems like no.

[rsora]

@rsora this one is yours: https://github.com/arduino/arduino-ide/tree/rsora/nightly-changelog
Is it still relevant? From this: bcmi-labs/arduino-editor#147 it seems like no.

Remove it, we close that PR because it was stale 👍

[sebromero]

@per1234 I removed it 👍

[kittaakos]

I will also make another clean-up cycle and remove all branches that belong to TypeFox or ex-TypeFox colleagues.

[per1234]

Remove it,

OK, done. Thanks Roberto and Sebastian!

[sebromero]

I even found a leftover one of mine from months ago, which I have now removed from both repos.

@per1234 It's okay Per, it happens to the best ;-)

[kittaakos]

I will also make another clean-up cycle and remove all branches that belong to TypeFox or ex-TypeFox colleagues.

Done.