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[python-committers] Quick reminder: please don't push long-lived dev branches to the CPython repo

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Fri May 25 16:19:18 EDT 2018 
On 5/25/2018 1:43 PM, Brett Cannon wrote:
> If you create a dev branch that is going to live for less than 24 hours 
> because you edited some typo in the docs or something through GitHub's 
> UI, then that's fine. But long-lived dev branches should be done in 
> one's personal fork. This is for two reasons: one is so that others 
> don't inadvertently download your dev branch when they do a `git pull` 
> (and because people often forget to do `git pull --prune`),

--prune is not mentioned on https://devguide.python.org/gitbootcamp/

  and two
> because it eats up our CI (which is especially precious while we are 
> still on AppVeyor and the turn-around time there is so long).
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