From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: Reference for git.git release process Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:27:58 -0400 Message-ID: <20090326022757.GC5835@coredump.intra.peff.net> References: <49CA78BF.2020101@fastmail.fm> <7viqlxz9go.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Raman Gupta , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Mar 26 03:29:54 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LmfLi-0000Ds-Eq for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 03:29:42 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752860AbZCZC2N (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:28:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752841AbZCZC2K (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:28:10 -0400 Received: from peff.net ([208.65.91.99]:57194 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752401AbZCZC2K (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:28:10 -0400 Received: (qmail 10324 invoked by uid 107); 26 Mar 2009 02:28:20 -0000 Received: from coredump.intra.peff.net (HELO coredump.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.2) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.40) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) SMTP; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:28:20 -0400 Received: by coredump.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:27:58 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7viqlxz9go.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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 I do not answer "generally" part, but in git.git, I do not publish heads 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