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Re: linux-x86-tip: pilot error?

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Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date
Jun 23, 2008, 16:14 UTC
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On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:
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> tags are mostly meant for release management - our use of tags to save 
> the "merge base" of topic branches in -tip can be considered mild abuse. 
> 
> ( But we did not want to pullute the already crowded branch space with 
>   extra technical branches. -tip has 127 branches at this moment, 89 of 
>   which are topic branches - creating a base branch for each topic would 
>   add another 89 branches and bring it all up to 216 branches. )

If these are only internal details, and not something you expect other people to use, you could get yourself a directory for refs that doesn't mean anything to the rest of git. If you use "refs/bases/<something>", git should (a) accept that as a name you can use for a commit; (b) preserve anything referenced by it; (c) copy it in a "git clone --mirror"; and pretty much ignore it otherwise.

	-Daniel
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  1. Paul E. McKenneyJun 22, 2008
  2. Mikael MagnussonJun 22, 2008
  3. Paul E. McKenneyJun 22, 2008
  4. Mikael MagnussonJun 22, 2008
  5. Björn SteinbrinkJun 22, 2008
  6. Paul E. McKenneyJun 22, 2008
  7. Ingo MolnarJun 23, 2008
  8. Paul E. McKenneyJun 23, 2008
  9. Ingo MolnarJun 23, 2008
  10. Paul E. McKenneyJun 23, 2008
  11. Ingo MolnarJun 23, 2008
  12. Daniel BarkalowJun 23, 2008
  13. Jeff KingJun 23, 2008
  14. Ingo MolnarJun 23, 2008
  15. Ingo MolnarJun 23, 2008

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