Re: [PATCH] Don't create the $GIT_DIR/branches directory on init

["Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>]

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Modern git Porcelains write remote definitions solely to .git/config, but
> still reads from .git/{branches,remotes}.
...
> Andrew Morton explicitly asked for this to be kept a few years
> ago and I do not see a reason to deprecate this.
...
>     Shawn and other wants to stop JGit from creating this directory on

I probably said something like this.  I won't bother denying it,
because list archives are more accurate than my own fallible memory.

But I didn't know the Andrew Morton part above.  After hearing it
from you, I'm reversing my (apparent) direction here.  We should
continue to create the branches directory within a new repository.

Sorry Robin, but Andrew Morton matters.  Its one stupid unused
directory in a repository that will chew through thousands of inodes
as loose objects.  Its a drop in the bucket in terms of resource
cost used by Git.  And Andrew is someone whose workflow we don't
want to break if we can avoid it.  He's a long time Git user who is
also high up in the kernel food chain.  Interrupting him disrupts
a fair chunk of kernel work while he grumbles about the Goddamn
Idiotic Truckload of s**t that Linus begat.

> This patch alone breaks tests in the t55?? series quite a lot,

Drop the patch.

-- 
Shawn.