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Re: Storing notes refs outside of refs/

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Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com>
Date
Aug 26, 2010, 18:47 UTC
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On 8/26/10 7:05 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Joshua Jensen <jjensen@workspacewhiz.com> writes:
> 
>> I tried manually moving .git/refs/notes/p4notes to .git/p4/p4notes.
> 
> Bad idea.  Your notes no longer are protected from fsck and prune.

Hm, so storing no longer needed branches outside of the refs/heads namespace (so that they don't show up in git branch) is a bad idea? This suggestion was made in #git today or yesterday and I'd like to know if I should advise people against doing that.

tom
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