From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Ericsson Subject: Re: Porcelain specific metadata under .git? Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:11:19 +0200 Message-ID: <448FEED7.30701@op5.se> References: <20060614062240.GA13886@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jun 14 13:11:27 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FqTHR-0002hq-8M for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:11:25 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932329AbWFNLLV (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jun 2006 07:11:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932350AbWFNLLV (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jun 2006 07:11:21 -0400 Received: from linux-server1.op5.se ([193.201.96.2]:42217 "EHLO smtp-gw1.op5.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932329AbWFNLLV (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jun 2006 07:11:21 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.20] (host-213.88.215.14.addr.se.sn.net [213.88.215.14]) by smtp-gw1.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DE596BCE9; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:11:20 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.8-1.1.fc4 (X11/20060501) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Shawn Pearce In-Reply-To: <20060614062240.GA13886@spearce.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231