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Re: [PATCH] Remove .git/branches from the .git template.

From
Kristian Høgsberg <krh@bitplanet.net>
Date
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
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  1. Remove .git/branches from the .git template.Kristian Høgsberg, Dec 9, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoDec 9, 2007
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