[yt-dev] Please don't delete your repositories

Andrew Myers atmyers at berkeley.edu
Tue Mar 5 14:17:07 PST 2013


I did this recently, so my apologies. I was trying to clean up my list of
repositories on Bitbucket and wasn't thinking about what that might do to
the comment record. I won't do it again, I promise!

-Andrew Myers

On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> This is an empassioned plea not to delete your repositories, especially if
> they have been the subject of pull requests -- successful or not.  Once a
> repository has been deleted, all comments and code review are now gone.
>  They can be reconstructed from email, but are otherwise lost.
>
> I've talked to BB support, and they suggested we open a feature request,
> but right now this is how things are.  So please, once you have created a
> repo that forms the basis of one or more pull requests, please don't delete
> it.
>
> -Matt
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