From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Shawn Pearce Subject: Re: Marking abandoned branches Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 12:49:37 -0400 Message-ID: <20060913164937.GC29933@spearce.org> References: <9e4733910609130817r39bbf8a8x2e05461816d9d2a1@mail.gmail.com> <20060913152451.GH23891@pasky.or.cz> <9e4733910609130859v347a7a9ew5c3ebc982bf9b07b@mail.gmail.com> <45083490.9020203@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jakub Narebski , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Sep 13 18:50:07 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GNXvl-0001mK-0m for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 18:49:45 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750766AbWIMQtm (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Sep 2006 12:49:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750768AbWIMQtm (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Sep 2006 12:49:42 -0400 Received: from corvette.plexpod.net ([64.38.20.226]:46520 "EHLO corvette.plexpod.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750766AbWIMQtl (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Sep 2006 12:49:41 -0400 Received: from cpe-74-70-48-173.nycap.res.rr.com ([74.70.48.173] helo=asimov.home.spearce.org) by corvette.plexpod.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.52) id 1GNXvZ-0001nz-G2; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 12:49:33 -0400 Received: by asimov.home.spearce.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BA03920E49A; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 12:49:37 -0400 (EDT) To: A Large Angry SCM Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45083490.9020203@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - corvette.plexpod.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - spearce.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: A Large Angry SCM wrote: > Jakub Narebski wrote: > ... > > As it was said somewhere in this thread, you can use tags (tag objects) for > > that, i.e. tag each of the abandoned branches, explaining why branch wa > > abandoned for example, remove head refs, and move tag refs to > > refs/abandoned or refs/tags-abandoned/ or refs/Attic/ or in refs-abandoned/ > > (the last has the advantage to not be included by default in any command, > > even when --all is given) > > Using $GIT_DIR/refs-abandoned/ means changing a number of core parts; > think fsck and friends. Better to decide on a name in $GIT_DIR/refs/ and > teach the various visualizers to ignore that prefix by default. Maybe > even make the name a config item. *ducks* How about using a regex or a shell wildcard in config such as: [core] hideRefs = refs/abandoned/ hideRefs = refs/some-garbage-i-have/ ? -- Shawn.