Re: [RFC] Introduce .git/BRANCH to point to the current branch

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Dec 4, 2007, 22:06 UTC
Message-ID: <7v63ze3yiq.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4755CD32.7040204@gmail.com>

Salikh Zakirov <salikh@gmail.com> writes:

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> Jakub Narebski wrote:
> ...
>> Please search the archives for idea of BASE extension to index
>> (instead of your separate file under .git/refs), and why it is
>> not in current git.
>
> I never realized this idea has been already tried. Thanks for the pointer!
> I would try to use BASE extension.

Start reading from here.

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/44360/focus=44508

All of the articles in that thread is worth a read to understand why the idea did not quite pan out and the whole series was reverted.

052737e33a898af8eb4f1bd97be046e05ecb9bea reverts the series from 'next'. 309202782399878a2d7973e21e6e62ba3b9fde50 was the last of the index-base series.