Changes to branch management

[Thiago Macieira]

On Tuesday 23 December 2014 17:45:23 Milian Wolff wrote:
> +1 to all of the above. What about tags btw? In KDevelop e.g. it would only
> be  a nuisance if someone would delete one of our "stable" branches, but
> deleting one of the release tags would be ugly as I'd then need to figure
> out what commit was chosen for what release.
> 
> Bye and thanks for your continuous work Ben, much appreciated! Take care.

Tags shouldn't be deleted, period. That's something for the repo owner, in 
case of a mistake.

Also note that people will get those tags and git remote prune doesn't delete 
them. So don't push bad tags.
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