From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
To: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Porcelain specific metadata under .git?
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:11:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <448FEED7.30701@op5.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060614062240.GA13886@spearce.org>
Shawn Pearce wrote:
>
> I already assume/know that refs/heads and refs/tags are completely
> off-limits as they are for user refs only.
>
> I also think the core GIT tools already assume that anything
> directly under .git which is strictly a file and which is named
> entirely with uppercase letters (aside from "HEAD") is strictly a
> temporary/short-lived state type item (e.g. COMMIT_MSG) used by a
> Porcelain.
>
> But is saying ".git/refs/eclipse-workspaces" is probably able to
> be used for this purpose safe? :-)
>
.git/eclipse/whatever-you-like
would probably be better. Heads can be stored directly under .git/refs
too. Most likely, nothing will ever be stored under ./git/eclipse by
either core git or the current (other) porcelains though.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-14 11:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-14 6:22 Porcelain specific metadata under .git? Shawn Pearce
2006-06-14 11:11 ` Andreas Ericsson [this message]
2006-06-14 11:32 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-06-14 13:07 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-06-14 13:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-06-17 0:43 ` Shawn Pearce
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