Re: Marking abandoned branches

From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Sep 13, 2006, 16:49 UTC
Message-ID: <20060913164937.GC29933@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <45083490.9020203@gmail.com>

A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Jakub Narebski wrote:
> ...
> > As it was said somewhere in this thread, you can use tags (tag objects) for
> > that, i.e. tag each of the abandoned branches, explaining why branch wa
> > abandoned for example, remove head refs, and move tag refs to
> > refs/abandoned or refs/tags-abandoned/ or refs/Attic/ or in refs-abandoned/
> > (the last has the advantage to not be included by default in any command,
> > even when --all is given)
> 
> Using $GIT_DIR/refs-abandoned/ means changing a number of core parts;
> think fsck and friends. Better to decide on a name in $GIT_DIR/refs/ and
> teach the various visualizers to ignore that prefix by default. Maybe
> even make the name a config item. *ducks*

How about using a regex or a shell wildcard in config such as:

	[core]
		hideRefs = refs/abandoned/
		hideRefs = refs/some-garbage-i-have/

-- 
Shawn.