View files opens up the Files view on the web so you canīrowse the files based on the most recent commit on the branch. icon next to the branch name and choosing View files or View history. Review the files in a branch or history by selecting the.
The Compare label will move to this branch and the other branches on the page will have the number of commits ahead/behind updated to reflect the new comparison. next to the branch you want to set as the baseline for comparison. Your branches shown on the page are to another branch in your repo:
#Remove branches update#
Update your compare branch to see how far ahead or behind The ahead and behind numbers listed for each branch are in comparison with the branch currently labeled Compare on the Branches page. Select the pull request to open it up so you can review the details. If the branch has a pull request open, you can see its pull request ID. Use this information to quickly check how far a branch has diverged from another. The branch view also shows the number of commits the branch is ahead of and behind the branch labeled Compare. Select the date or time of the last commit to review the updates to the branch. to the right of the star to open the branch context menu, then selecting Remove from my favorites.Įach branch name has the name of the last contributor to the branch and a link to the latest commit on the branch. Remove favorites by toggling the star off or by selecting the. Mark multiple branches as favorites by selecting the star icon on the tree view next to a folder on the tree.
#Remove branches how to#
For suggestions on how to name your branches, see Adopt a Git branching strategy.Īdd branches from the All view to the Mine view by selecting the star icon to favorite the branch. No need to remove part of the history by removing branches it is ok to keep them around.Using a naming convention for your branches is highly recommended. That's fine we designed Plastic around this concept. Of course, it means a big team can create thousands of branches in a very short period. They are merged after as little as a couple of hours of work and never more than a couple of days (and this number is already too high in most cases). We strongly recommend using task branches - short-lived branches where an individual developer works to complete a task. We optimized all our tools to be ready to deal with limitless numbers of branches. Not that they are mistaken or anything - they simply follow a different way of working. Open two of the most popular Git GUIs out there with as few as 1k branches and watch them crash. In Git, you need to delete branches because GUIs are not ready to deal with them. We have customers with way more than that.
It is an underlying different viewpoint.Ģ) Most Git GUIs crash with lots of branches. We like to tell a story on each checkin, to help reviewers speed up their work, instead of grouping tons of changes together into a single changeset ready to be merged. Yes, that's why they like to squash branches, delete them and so on, but we have a radically different vision about all that. I really like to show the blame of a file, spot a given line, and immediately see which was the task branch in which it was created. We see Plastic acting like a wise librarian - preserving history for the sake of not repeating mistakes and creating lots of knowledge from previous work. This means that in Git is very easy to lose where a commit came from, while in Plastic, changesets always belong to a single branch and their history is preserved. In the branches view, it is possible to customize the query to show only the branches with changes in the last N days: In Plastic, there are several ways to filter branches to focus on the most recent history. Plastic GUIs don't struggle with thousands of branches… unlike Git GUIs In the following topics, I'm going to explain the whys in detail. We also preserve branches because… Plastic doesn't break with dozens of thousands of branches, not the core, nor the GUIs… unlike Git. We preserve history because it is great to do a diff, or a blame of a file, and find the branch where it was done, and the direct link to the associated task with all the extra info it contains. So, if you are new to Plastic, and found this blogpost when trying to find how to "delete branches", I'm sorry to say the answer is NO, we don't delete… but for a reason :-) The reason is because these users have a very Git-centric view of version control. If you are a hard-core Plastic user you might think why someone would want to remove a branch with changesets on it. They want to get rid of them after the branch is merged because they are worried about polluting the repo with countless branches. Sometimes users ask if it is possible to delete branches in Plastic.
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