Re: Marking abandoned branches

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 13, 2006, 15:45 UTC
Message-ID: <ee9925$6cp$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0609131729500.19042@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Petr Baudis wrote:
> 
>> Dear diary, on Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 05:17:59PM CEST, I got a letter
>> where Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> said that...
>> > Abandoned branches are common in CVS since it is not distributed.
>> > People start working on something in the main repo and then decide it
>> > was a bad idea. In the git world these branches usually don't end up
>> > in the main repo.
>> 
>> Can't you just toss the branch away in that case? :-)
>> 
>> You could also stash the ref to refs/heads-abandoned/ instead of
>> refs/heads/ if you want to keep the junk around for some reason. Of
>> course you don't get the nice marker with explanation of why is this
>> abandoned and who decided that, but you can just use an empty commit for
>> the same purpose.
> 
> ... or a tag (remember, you can stash a tag into refs/abandoned/, instead 
> of a commit) with the further benefit that you really cannot commit on top 
> of that.

Or refs/Attic/ ;-)

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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