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Re: [PATCH] Remove .git/branches from the .git template.

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Dec 9, 2007, 18:30 UTC
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Kristian Høgsberg <krh@bitplanet.net> writes:
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> The code in git to read the info in .git/branches is still there,
> but nothing ever writes to this, so lets stop creating it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kristian Høgsberg <krh@redhat.com>
> ---
>
> As far as I can see this should be safe, but I admit to never really
> knowing what .git/branches was originally used for - tracking remote
> branches or something?  In any case, we only ever read from this dir
> so the only left in git to deal with this seems to be for compatibilty
> with older repos.

This was done purely so that Cogito would not barf on a repository initialized with "git init" even if it did not bother creating necessary leading directories when it writes its rough equivalent to .git/remotes/ information. I do not recall if Cogito had such a problem anymore, but I think it can safely go when Cogito is effectively dead.

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  1. Remove .git/branches from the .git template.Kristian Høgsberg, Dec 9, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoDec 9, 2007
  3. Kristian HøgsbergDec 10, 2007

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