# [PATCH] Don't create .git/branches

1 messages from 2007-09-19 to 2007-09-19. Participants: Pavel Roskin.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/9940

## Pavel Roskin, 2007-09-19 05:08

Subject: [PATCH] Don't create .git/branches
Message-ID: <20070919050802.13422.8384.stgit@dv.roinet.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20070919050802.13422.8384.stgit%40dv.roinet.com

```
.git/branches was obsoleted by .git/remotes in August 2005, and the
later was obsoleted in December 2006.  .git/branches was kept for
compatibility with Cogito.  Since Cogito is not developed any longer,
the .git/branches directory is no longer useful, especially in newly
created repositories.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
---

 templates/branches-- |    1 -
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 templates/branches--


diff --git a/templates/branches-- b/templates/branches--
deleted file mode 100644
index fae8870..0000000
--- a/templates/branches--
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-: this is just to ensure the directory exists.

```