From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 16:05:19 GMT
Subject: Re: Marking abandoned branches
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0609131804050.19042@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910609130859v347a7a9ew5c3ebc982bf9b07b@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Jon Smirl wrote:

> Moving the refs into refs/abandoned would work too. We would need new
> git commands to do this and flags on the visualization tools to
> include the abandoned branches. On the other hand doing this is
> recording state about the repository in the refs directory instead of
> writing this state into the repo itself.

Well, the refs directory is _part_ of the repository. Think about it, if 
you do not know which branches are in the object database, you lack a lot 
of information.

BTW the moving of a branch to a tag in refs/abandoned/ is trivial.

Ciao,
Dscho