Any long lived branches should be listed here and link to the task or ticket that inspired them.

Here's a simplistic report about the existing branches.

branch: bundle-parrot
initial revision: r20961
creator: particle
create date: 2007-08-31T17:50:03.776035Z
authors: particle
components: RELEASE, config
last updated: 2007-08-31T19:03:45.797170Z
# of commits: 3
initial log msg: create branch for conversion to Bundle::Parrot
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branch: gc_options_remove
initial revision: r38108
creator: jkeenan
create date: 2009-04-15T01:58:17.010760Z
authors: jkeenan
last updated: 2009-04-15T02:16:47.111273Z
# of commits: 2
initial log msg: Create branch to work on https://trac.parrot.org/parrot/ticket/490.
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branch: gsoc_pdd09
initial revision: r27765
creator: Whiteknight
create date: 2008-05-23T14:46:32.800681Z
authors: Whiteknight [241], chromatic [8], rurban [1]
components: GC, Rakudo, gsoc_pdd09, src, t
last updated: 2008-12-19T01:35:50.416050Z
# of commits: 250
initial log msg: Creating branch for GSoC PDD09 garbage collector work
last merge log: [t] Added a file missing from a previous merge.  Now the MANIFEST check doesn't
end Configure prematurely.
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branch: gut_registry
initial revision: r34592
creator: tewk
create date: 2008-12-29T21:37:53.223375Z
authors: tewk
last updated: 2008-12-29T21:37:53.223375Z
# of commits: 1
initial log msg: Gut the class registry :)

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branch: headercleanup
initial revision: r37946
creator: chromatic
create date: 2009-04-07T17:58:25.671833Z
authors: chromatic
components: config, headercleanup, runcore
last updated: 2009-04-21T21:28:29.296043Z
# of commits: 11
initial log msg: Created branch to clean up headers and move code into subsystem directories
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branch: install_tools
initial revision: r37309
creator: jkeenan
create date: 2009-03-11T12:22:58.902320Z
authors: jkeenan
last updated: 2009-04-25T19:53:50.320148Z
# of commits: 33
initial log msg: Creating branch to hold work on extracting code from tools/dev/*install*.pl
into lib/Parrot/Install.pm and associated testing.

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branch: lazyrakudo
initial revision: r30374
creator: jonathan
create date: 2008-08-20T10:30:35.960162Z
authors: jonathan [17], tene [1]
components: rakudo
last updated: 2008-09-12T02:48:10.423408Z
# of commits: 18
initial log msg: [rakudo] Creating branch to start work on lazy lists for Rakudo.
last merge log: Merge branch 'master' into branch 'lazyrakudo'
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branch: nci
initial revision: r11073
creator: nickg
create date: 2006-01-11T01:06:21.028889Z
authors: nickg
last updated: 2006-01-16T23:19:22.861486Z
# of commits: 16
initial log msg: Revisit NCI code to see if we can support a few backends.
Creating a branch so that I don't cause daily breakage.

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branch: nsentry
initial revision: r34227
creator: tewk
create date: 2008-12-22T04:36:41.378623Z
authors: tewk
components: nsentry
last updated: 2008-12-22T04:41:44.122109Z
# of commits: 2
initial log msg: Recreated nsentry branch

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branch: pcc_rewiring
initial revision: r37952
creator: allison
create date: 2009-04-07T21:25:58.754528Z
authors: allison
components: pcc
last updated: 2009-04-20T23:56:39.703637Z
# of commits: 13
initial log msg: Creating branch for refactoring calling conventions, rewiring the internals of pcc dispatch.
last merge log: [pcc] Don't mark the PMC and String children of a CPointer (have made
this change before, but seems it was never merged into trunk).
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branch: pct_hll
initial revision: r34605
creator: tene
create date: 2008-12-30T03:30:22.152736Z
authors: tene
components: APL, cardinal, lolcode, pct, pheme, pipp, pynie, rakudo
last updated: 2009-01-05T09:04:21.835458Z
# of commits: 16
initial log msg: Create a branch for working pn HLL issues with PCT.

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branch: pdd09gc_part1
initial revision: r34100
creator: allison
create date: 2008-12-19T06:58:30.378733Z
authors: Whiteknight [14], allison [1], chromatic [1]
components: config, lisp, pdd09gc_part01, pdd09gc_part1, pirc, rakudo, win32
last updated: 2009-01-10T22:08:09.975918Z
# of commits: 16
initial log msg: Creating a branch for the first round of GC refactoring.
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branch: pdd30_install
initial revision: r31315
creator: rurban
create date: 2008-09-21T14:25:18.617930Z
authors: coke [1], rurban [12]
components: cage, docs, install, languages, perl6, pipp, ports
last updated: 2008-12-25T18:37:06.917487Z
# of commits: 13
initial log msg: rename cygwin070patches branch to pdd30_install
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branch: pdd30install_stage4
initial revision: r35113
creator: rurban
create date: 2009-01-07T11:26:21.005052Z
authors: rurban
last updated: 2009-01-08T18:21:50.932840Z
# of commits: 3
initial log msg: Creating forth branch for ongoing 'make install' work, at trunk r35106.


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branch: pmc_pct
initial revision: r38287
creator: bacek
create date: 2009-04-24T10:21:38.416818Z
authors: bacek [81], cotto [15]
components: PMC, cage, grammar, nqp, pmc, pmc_pct, t
last updated: 2009-05-02T06:12:52.683897Z
# of commits: 96
initial log msg: Experimental branch for PCT based PMC parser
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branch: remove_new_from_string
initial revision: r30230
creator: coke
create date: 2008-08-14T17:19:45.275897Z
authors: coke
last updated: 2008-08-14T17:57:20.802588Z
# of commits: 2
initial log msg: Create a branch for RT #47011, removing the VTABLE entry 'new_from_string'


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branch: remove_pic
initial revision: r34286
creator: coke
create date: 2008-12-23T20:56:05.001512Z
authors: allison [2], coke [5]
components: remove_pic
last updated: 2008-12-26T23:35:41.183900Z
# of commits: 7
initial log msg: RT #60048. -  remove polymorphic inline cache.


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branch: rep6object
initial revision: r38506
creator: jonathan
create date: 2009-05-06T18:12:02.833500Z
authors: jonathan
last updated: 2009-05-06T18:12:02.833500Z
# of commits: 1
initial log msg: Create branch for refactoring P6object.
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branch: report_hll_info
initial revision: r38072
creator: tene
create date: 2009-04-12T02:05:12.780003Z
authors: tene
components: exceptions
last updated: 2009-04-12T02:07:29.697413Z
# of commits: 2
initial log msg: Branch trunk to work with printing the HLL info on an uncaught exception.

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branch: splint
initial revision: r19585
creator: paultcochrane
create date: 2007-07-04T19:09:12.421958Z
authors: paultcochrane
components: config, include, src
last updated: 2007-07-10T09:54:07.177368Z
# of commits: 10
initial log msg: Created a separate branch for people to work on splint processing
last merge log: Merged changes from trunk into splint branch (19727:19755)
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branch: strings
initial revision: r35348
creator: simon
create date: 2009-01-10T18:39:34.876664Z
authors: simon
last updated: 2009-01-27T22:57:17.207034Z
# of commits: 27
initial log msg: Creating a branch to implement strings PDD
last merge log: Merge from trunk
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branch: vc9
initial revision: r34148
creator: rblasch
create date: 2008-12-20T18:17:54.903915Z
authors: rblasch
last updated: 2008-12-20T19:11:31.880324Z
# of commits: 5
initial log msg: Visual C++ 9 port branch.

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