Subject: Re: Marking abandoned branches

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 20:51:36 +0200

Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Using tag has an added benefit that you now have a place to say
> why you dropped it.  So what we would need to support this is an
> agreed-upon name under $GIT_DIR/refs/ that is omitted from
> display by convention across Porcelains (the core side should
> not ignore them because even when you are abandoning them, you
> do not want to lose them),

I think that using hidden directory (dot-directory), e.g.
$GIT_DIR/refs/.abandoned/ is a good idea... unless it conflicts somewhat
with the way lock files are named...

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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