Re: Porcelain specific metadata under .git?

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Jun 14, 2006, 11:11 UTC
Message-ID: <448FEED7.30701@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <20060614062240.GA13886@spearce.org>

Shawn Pearce wrote:

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> 
> I already assume/know that refs/heads and refs/tags are completely
> off-limits as they are for user refs only.
> 
> I also think the core GIT tools already assume that anything
> directly under .git which is strictly a file and which is named
> entirely with uppercase letters (aside from "HEAD") is strictly a
> temporary/short-lived state type item (e.g. COMMIT_MSG) used by a
> Porcelain.
> 
> But is saying ".git/refs/eclipse-workspaces" is probably able to
> be used for this purpose safe?  :-)
>

.git/eclipse/whatever-you-like

would probably be better. Heads can be stored directly under .git/refs too. Most likely, nothing will ever be stored under ./git/eclipse by either core git or the current (other) porcelains though.

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