Question

I needed to do some feature development on a branch, so I created one and now I’ve merged it back into trunk.

The question is, what do I do with that branch? What’s the wise thing to do? Do I remove it from the repos?

It feels untidy and unnecessary to just leave it there.

Answer 1

Alright, I understand where everyone is coming from, but decided the branch can be gone. I just don’t want to see lots of inactive branches.

Having said that, I did create a tag of the branch.

Here’s what I found to support my opinion:

You don’t have to delete the branch,
but over time your branches area of
your repository will get cluttered,
and in any event if they’re not
actively being worked on the branches
are just taking up space and adding to
later confusion. Keeping your
branches limited to things you’re
actively working on is simply a good
habit to get into, just like making
sure your codebase itself remains tidy
and not filled with old commented out
bits of code.

…

Don’t be too afraid of this, though.
You can still get to the files by
viewing the log for branches, and
selecting a previous revision
(anything before the delete action)[.]

Source: http://stevesmithblog.com/blog/simple-branching-and-merging-with-svn/