Re: Marking abandoned branches

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sep 13, 2006, 19:00 UTC
Message-ID: <7vbqpja8wz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <ee9jv6$ga0$1@sea.gmane.org>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

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> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Using tag has an added benefit that you now have a place to say
>> why you dropped it.  So what we would need to support this is an
>> agreed-upon name under $GIT_DIR/refs/ that is omitted from
>> display by convention across Porcelains (the core side should
>> not ignore them because even when you are abandoning them, you
>> do not want to lose them),
>
> I think that using hidden directory (dot-directory), e.g.
> $GIT_DIR/refs/.abandoned/ is a good idea... unless it conflicts somewhat
> with the way lock files are named...

Names are not interesting. Visualizers ignoring them consistently is.

By the way, does gitweb still walk $GIT_DIR/refs hierarchy by hand to find out the set of refs? When Linus is done with his refs/ work, that way would become unsupported. You would need to read from "ls-remote $GIT_DIR".