From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: A Large Angry SCM Subject: Re: Marking abandoned branches Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 09:40:48 -0700 Message-ID: <45083490.9020203@gmail.com> References: <9e4733910609130817r39bbf8a8x2e05461816d9d2a1@mail.gmail.com> <20060913152451.GH23891@pasky.or.cz> <9e4733910609130859v347a7a9ew5c3ebc982bf9b07b@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: gitzilla@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Sep 13 18:42:12 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 1GNXnw-000089-7p for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 18:41:43 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750739AbWIMQlH (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Sep 2006 12:41:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750750AbWIMQlH (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Sep 2006 12:41:07 -0400 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.233]:64642 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750741AbWIMQk7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Sep 2006 12:40:59 -0400 Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s14so2434662wxc for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 09:40:59 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:disposition-notification-to:date:from:reply-to:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=sVdOYPcfUMnBZGJoXcSzDtHU5D3lQ2Cse+MP33WIcTDD8bkI6ViAFhuofMDzEYmmMrwMObupl/T7P+1DgGDBZrwtoq2nIrKK0leRBRjUcRTa5eO1jwcU4V8BGoZ0nGBk+BMj57pNWaSZC2/4AWtVo+5c2CAKzD23XoH/YnDPihY= Received: by 10.90.117.15 with SMTP id p15mr2826679agc; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 09:40:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?10.0.0.6? ( [24.55.157.69]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 14sm1229122wrl.2006.09.13.09.40.50; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 09:40:51 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060725) To: Jakub Narebski In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jakub Narebski wrote: ... > As it was said somewhere in this thread, you can use tags (tag objects) for > that, i.e. tag each of the abandoned branches, explaining why branch wa > abandoned for example, remove head refs, and move tag refs to > refs/abandoned or refs/tags-abandoned/ or refs/Attic/ or in refs-abandoned/ > (the last has the advantage to not be included by default in any command, > even when --all is given) Using $GIT_DIR/refs-abandoned/ means changing a number of core parts; think fsck and friends. Better to decide on a name in $GIT_DIR/refs/ and teach the various visualizers to ignore that prefix by default. Maybe even make the name a config item. *ducks*