Best practice for handling redundant branches

[Samuel Jack]

Just wondering what your thoughts on best practice are in the following scenario:

I make a branch from the trunk in order to work on a particular feature. Once that feature is complete I merge the branch back into the trunk.

Should I consider the branch redundant now. Is it a candidate for deleting and obliteration?

[jeremy_sg]

Yes, if you no longer need the branch, it's ok to delete/obliterate it. It's always good to remove unneeded nodes from your tree. Note that you'll get most of the benefit just by deleting the nodes. Obliterating will only give you a major speed/space improvement if the branch had lots of changes or lots of nodes.