From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 17:26:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/11] Revert "Revert "Don't create the $GIT_DIR/branches directory on init""
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kbAVt0xMDKmsTG-9cUx7Uj3jCY4-ma__BDokALMX8jz3g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <32d64bd3716c6f7a24877535330b7ac754eb117c.1494509599.git.johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 6:47 AM, Johannes Schindelin
<johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> A long, long, long time ago, we stored the "upstream" information of
> branches in files inside the .git/branches/ directory. We don't do this
> anymore, though. Since 5751f49010e (Move remote parsing into a library
> file out of builtin-push., 2007-05-12), to be precise.
>
> This is sort of a sibling to 75c384efb52 (Do not create $GIT_DIR/remotes/
> directory anymore., 2006-12-19).
>
> The tests t5505-remote and t5516-fetch-push need to be adjusted now, as
> they expect to find a .git/branches/ directory.
>
> This reverts c8a58ac5a52 (Revert "Don't create the $GIT_DIR/branches
> directory on init", 2009-10-31).
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> ---

This (and the previous patches) makes sense to me.

Thanks,
Stefan