Re: Marking abandoned branches

From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 13, 2006, 17:24 UTC
Message-ID: <9e4733910609131024v28ccce5cx7dd427a55002bc4f@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <ee9d5j$lhd$1@sea.gmane.org>

On 9/13/06, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:

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> A Large Angry SCM wrote:
>
> > Jakub Narebski wrote:
> > ...
> >> As it was said somewhere in this thread, you can use tags (tag objects)
> for
> >> that, i.e. tag each of the abandoned branches, explaining why branch wa
> >> abandoned for example, remove head refs, and move tag refs to
> >> refs/abandoned or refs/tags-abandoned/ or refs/Attic/ or in
> refs-abandoned/
> >> (the last has the advantage to not be included by default in any command,
> >> even when --all is given)
> >
> > Using $GIT_DIR/refs-abandoned/ means changing a number of core parts;
> > think fsck and friends. Better to decide on a name in $GIT_DIR/refs/ and
> > teach the various visualizers to ignore that prefix by default. Maybe
> > even make the name a config item. *ducks*
>
> Well, visualisers IIRC shows only requested branches. The only place where
> abandoned branches would show even when we probably don't want would be
> --all... one can try to use --all --not refs/abandoned/*

In order to make the tools easier to use I would turn this around and make --all show all active branches and the use something like --include /refs/abandoned to include the abandoned ones.

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>
> I wonder if using the "hidden" directory for abandoned branches
> (i.e. refs/.abandoned) would work...
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> Jakub Narebski
> Warsaw, Poland
> ShadeHawk on #git
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