From: Stephen Bash <bash@genarts.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 15:32:25 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Hidden refs
Message-ID: <3305459.485811.1286983945370.JavaMail.root@mail.hq.genarts.com>
In-Reply-To: <4CB5CEA3.8020702@xiplink.com>

> So I'm wondering if it makes sense to properly support hidden
> directories in
> refs/, and what it would take to do so. (I image, for example, that
> things
> would behave quite differently on Windows...)
> 
> Thoughts?

We currently use refs/hidden/heads and refs/hidden/tags for hidden refs.  It does require calling 'gitk --branches --tags' rather than 'gitk --all', but otherwise I like the behavior (git branch only lists refs/heads, git tag only lists ref/tags).  And they never get cloned by default (they can still be fetched when needed).

Stephen