Re: [StGIT RFC PATCH] Don't use refs/bases/<branchname>

From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: May 2, 2007, 13:10 UTC
Message-ID: <20070502131011.GA13426@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <e5bfff550705020417h14f6297fu957eb64e58119770@mail.gmail.com>

On 2007-05-02 13:17:01 +0200, Marco Costalba wrote:

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> On 5/2/07, Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com> wrote:
>
> > It's not near the top of my kill list by any stretch of the
> > imagination, so no need to worry. And even if it were, Catalin
> > would certainly stand as a wall of sanity between qgit and my
> > chain saw. :-)
>
> Currently I check for the existence of <git dir>/patches directory
> as a quick exit in case a repository does NOT have a StGIT repo on
> it (the common case).
>
> This avoids a costly and 99% of cases not needed 'stg <something>'
> call.
>
> I ask if it will be still a safe check in the long period or it is
> better to change the check to something else (as existence of
> <git dir>/refs/patches) instead ?

I personally have no plan to attempt to remove all of .git/patches -- a lot of data in there is redundant, but certainly not all of it, and there's no compelling reason to move it. But Catalin has the final word, of course.

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Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com
      www.treskal.com/kalle