Re: What is in git.git

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Jan 22, 2006, 20:41 UTC
Message-ID: <7vbqy4c7vy.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <200601220033.26321.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>

Josef Weidendorfer <Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de> writes:

> I understand that "moving binding point of X from X/ to lib/X/" is not
> representable within the index as a simple change. Is this the main issue
> for your "against the whole git philosophy"?

No. I meant an exposure of local branch names by recording them in the commit object, and nothing else, by that comment.

Instead of using an extra $GIT_DIR/bind file extending what we record in the index file is OK. $GIT_INDEX_FILE, $GIT_DIR/HEAD, and $GIT_DIR/bind pretty much go hand-in-hand anyway and they _are_ local to the repository, just like branch names are, so I do not have any problem with using local branch names in these places, but not in a commit object (or gitlink object for that matter).