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Re: Storing notes refs outside of refs/

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Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com>
Date
Aug 26, 2010, 19:09 UTC
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On 8/26/10 8:51 PM, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:
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> Heya,
> 
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 13:47, Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com> wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> You can store them outside refs/heads just fine, as long as they're
> somewhere under refs. For example, refs/attic/ would be perfectly
> safe.

Ah, I missed that Joshua wants to put them outside of .git/refs (.git/p4). Slight but important difference :)

tom
Previous: Sverre Rabbelier
Message 8 of 8 in “Storing notes refs outside of refs/”
  1. Joshua JensenAug 26, 2010
  2. Junio C HamanoAug 26, 2010
  3. Joshua JensenAug 26, 2010
  4. Junio C HamanoAug 26, 2010
  5. Joshua JensenAug 26, 2010
  6. Tomas CarneckyAug 26, 2010
  7. Sverre RabbelierAug 26, 2010
  8. Tomas CarneckyAug 26, 2010

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