[ImageJ-devel] Removing obsolete Bio-Formats GitHub forks

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi Curtis,

On Fri, 18 Oct 2013, Curtis Rueden wrote:

> > So by removing the topic branches, we also removed the documentation
> > from what source we used to build certain revisions of our bio-formats
> > submodule.
> 
> If you think this is a problem, I am fine with reinstating the branches.
> I still have the local branch pointers and can easily push them back if
> that's what you want.
> 
> Personally I just thought the benefits of simplification outweighed
> preserving such (minor) history. My thinking is that many more people will
> be looking at the list of repos in those namespaces and potentially
> wondering why we keep a fork of the project, versus the likely extremely
> small number (potentially zero) of developers digging through the git
> history and cross-checking against the given links, etc.

I guess you're right and it is not really worth preserving because all of
our changes basically made it back into the 'master' branch somehow.

Ciao,
Dscho