From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2007 18:30:55 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove .git/branches from the .git template. Message-ID: <7v3aubpvog.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20071209183856.GA5587@bitplanet.net> Kristian Høgsberg writes: > 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 > --- > > 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.