Housekeeping: delete stale branches

[kdeldycke]

Outside the active main and stable branches, I inventoried 5 branches that might be good candidate for deletion:

• release-8.2.2: release-prep branch for v8.2.2, merged via Release 8.2.2 #3014 on 2025-08-02.
• bugfix/OptionsAutoCompletion: fix for auto-completion with nargs options, merged via show correct auto complete value for nargs option in combination with flag option #2816 on 2025-08-07 for v8.3.0.

On the other hand, the following PRs looks like abandoned WIP:

• typing/paramtype by @AndreasBackx, last commit is bbf4257 on 2024-12-22. The author's own commit on the branch says "will be for 9.0.0"; nothing was ever submitted.
• typing/parameter is attached to Parameter typing improvements #2805 by @AndreasBackx but still in draft. A rebase onto main for 8.3.0 was requested on 2025-08-23 and has not been addressed since.
• parser-rewrite-1 by @davidism, last commit is 72f2aae and on 2023-07-06. Feature a single commit on top of 8.1.x, obsoleted by deprecate OptionParser #2592 which deprecated OptionParser.

For these three I can try to re-integrate them as much as I can on top of stable. But I don't know how much is salvageable given the important changes which happened since their last commit.

[davidism]

My parser branch also contains the rewritten parser so far. Don't delete that. I just ended up splitting out the old deprecation, and didn't rebase the branch yet.

[AndreasBackx]

I created a fork with the branches so my changes won't get lost in case I were to need them. But even if they got lost, it's not the end of the world. Feel free to integrate them. I'm not sure in what state I left them, but it should be possible to largely integrate them into main. Feel free to remove them as well.

[kdeldycke]

Thanks @davidism for the feedback. I will not touch your branch.

@AndreasBackx I will not touch your typing/parameter and typing/paramtype branches then. Unless I start reviewing them deeply and start a plan to reintegrate them.

So in the end, I propose to only delete release-8.2.2 and bugfix/OptionsAutoCompletion, as they're clearly have no utility and are now part of the main/stable tree. I will proceed with the deletion in a week as a cooldown measure.

[kdeldycke]

FYI, just deleted the 2 old branches:

[kdeldycke]

Following the merge of #3371 , the typing/paramtype branch has been deleted.

[kdeldycke]

typing/parameter has been deleted after #2805 was merged.

The left over of typing/paramtype have also been merged in #3372, so all contributions attempt by @AndreasBackx are on main.

We now have a clean repo! :)