Re: Reference for git.git release process

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:30:31PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> I do not answer "generally" part, but in git.git, I do not publish heads
> of individual topic branches.  I could, but simply I don't, because that
> has been the way I've operated so far, and I am too lazy to change my
> configuration.

I don't think it is a big problem in practice. But every once in a while
I have had to dig through pu to re-create a topic branch manually. And I
believe Thomas Rast posted a script to do so automatically. So I think
there is some indication that people might find this information useful,
but I don't feel too strongly about it.

> Also I suspect it would make my life more cumbersome
> because I have to prune stale topics from the public repositories from
> time to time.

Mirror mode would handle this automatically, but it unfortunately also
ignores your push refspec. So any cruft or work-in-progress refs in your
repository would be pushed.

-Peff