Re: [PATCH] New git-seek command with documentation and test.
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- H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
- Date
- Feb 24, 2006, 06:53 UTC
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- <43FEAD62.6050302@zytor.com>
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- <20060224002915.17331.qmail@science.horizon.com>
linux@horizon.com wrote:
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> The annoying thing about temporary branch names like "bisect" and "seek" > is that: > a) They clutter up the nae space available to the repository user. > Users have to know that those are reserved names. > b) If a repository is cloned while they're in use, they might get > into a "remotes" file, with even more confusing results. > > This is somewhat heretical, but how about making a truly unnamed branch by > having .git/HEAD *not* be a symlink, but rather hold a commit ID directly? > It's already well established that files in the .git directory directly > are strictly local to this working directory, so it seems a much better > home for such temporary state. >
It might be easier to just reserve part of the namespace, e.g. ".bisect" and ".seek" instead.
-hpa