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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: fast-import wishlist (Re: [RFC] fast-import: note deletion command)
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 16:03:36 -0500
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Dmitry Ivankov wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 2:39 AM, Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> wrote:

>> Is this perhaps a good moment to also think about branch deletion?

It might be a good temporal moment, but it's not quite the right
thread for it. :)  If someone wants to maintain a fast-import wishlist
in a wiki somewhere, it sounds like it could be useful to some people
(I prefer to read patches and stories about particular use cases,
myself :)).

>> That came up earlier as well, and thinking about that might give us
>> some insights in how to deal with deletions uniformly.
>
> Also maybe marks deletion, getting mark sha1,  resetting a mark with
> explicit sha1. But most probably not tags deletion.
>
> And going much further on commands, following look nice to have:
> - 'ls' storing result to a mark (to allow us not to compute sha1/store
>   object if we don't want to)
> - marks namespaces (to keep ls mark separately, mark deletion will
>   do too, if it's only a single temporary mark). Maybe like ::nr:mark.

Regards,
Jonathan