From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:03:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix branches file configuration
Message-ID: <20080325170329.fadc9273.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v3aqel5ms.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:56:43 -0700 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

> (the support for "branches" file is not
> deprecated, even though I personally do not see a reason to use it in new
> repositories).

I looked at the new (verbose) format a year or two back and thought "why
the heck would I want to use that".

I have 213 files in my .git/branches/ and I change them a lot.  The
succinct one-line format is nice...