From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Karl =?iso-8859-1?Q?Hasselstr=F6m?= Subject: Re: [StGIT RFC PATCH] Don't use refs/bases/ Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 15:10:11 +0200 Message-ID: <20070502131011.GA13426@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk> References: <20070429220832.5832.251.stgit@yoghurt> <20070501185615.GA32727@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk> <20070502065054.GA9919@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Catalin Marinas , git@vger.kernel.org To: Marco Costalba X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed May 02 15:10:25 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HjEb7-0001WV-Q2 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 02 May 2007 15:10:22 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2993142AbXEBNKS convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 09:10:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S2993143AbXEBNKS (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 09:10:18 -0400 Received: from diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk ([80.68.90.142]:4962 "EHLO diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2993142AbXEBNKQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 09:10:16 -0400 Received: from kha by diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1HjEax-0003hS-00; Wed, 02 May 2007 14:10:11 +0100 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Manual-Spam-Check: kha@treskal.com, clean User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 2007-05-02 13:17:01 +0200, Marco Costalba wrote: > On 5/2/07, Karl Hasselstr=F6m wrote: > > > It's not near the top of my kill list by any stretch of the > > imagination, so no need to worry. And even if it were, Catalin > > would certainly stand as a wall of sanity between qgit and my > > chain saw. :-) > > Currently I check for the existence of /patches directory > as a quick exit in case a repository does NOT have a StGIT repo on > it (the common case). > > This avoids a costly and 99% of cases not needed 'stg ' > call. > > I ask if it will be still a safe check in the long period or it is > better to change the check to something else (as existence of > /refs/patches) instead ? I personally have no plan to attempt to remove all of .git/patches -- a lot of data in there is redundant, but certainly not all of it, and there's no compelling reason to move it. But Catalin has the final word, of course. --=20 Karl Hasselstr=F6m, kha@treskal.com www.treskal.com/kalle