Re: [PATCH] Remove .git/branches from the .git template.
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Kristian Høgsberg <krh@bitplanet.net>
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- Dec 10, 2007, 04:34 UTC
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- <20071210043455.GA12941@bitplanet.net>
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On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 10:30:55AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Kristian Høgsberg <krh@bitplanet.net> writes: > > > The code in git to read the info in .git/branches is still there, > > but nothing ever writes to this, so lets stop creating it. > > > > Signed-off-by: Kristian Høgsberg <krh@redhat.com> > > --- > > > > As far as I can see this should be safe, but I admit to never really > > knowing what .git/branches was originally used for - tracking remote > > branches or something? In any case, we only ever read from this dir > > so the only left in git to deal with this seems to be for compatibilty > > with older repos. > > This was done purely so that Cogito would not barf on a repository > initialized with "git init" even if it did not bother creating necessary > leading directories when it writes its rough equivalent to .git/remotes/ > information. I do not recall if Cogito had such a problem anymore, but > I think it can safely go when Cogito is effectively dead.
OK, I don't know where cogito is in that respect, I thought maybe we had just forgotten we still created that directory. Should we just try to apply the patch to find out how it might interact with cogito?
Kristian