From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tomas Carnecky Subject: Re: Storing notes refs outside of refs/ Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:09:31 +0200 Message-ID: <4C76BBEB.3040700@dbservice.com> References: <4C7681F1.3070205@workspacewhiz.com> <7vy6btl2yo.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <4C76B6CF.8040808@dbservice.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Junio C Hamano , Joshua Jensen , "git@vger.kernel.org" To: Sverre Rabbelier X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Aug 26 21:10:43 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OohqU-0007h4-AG for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:10:42 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754353Ab0HZTK2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:10:28 -0400 Received: from office.neopsis.com ([78.46.209.98]:49272 "EHLO office.neopsis.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754564Ab0HZTK1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:10:27 -0400 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL: 0.066,BAYES_00: -1.665,TOTAL_SCORE: -1.599,autolearn=ham X-Spam-Level: Received: from calvin.caurea.org ([62.65.141.13]) (authenticated user tom@dbservice.com) by office.neopsis.com (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher AES256-SHA (256 bits)); Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:09:33 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 8/26/10 8:51 PM, Sverre Rabbelier wrote: > Heya, > > On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 13:47, Tomas Carnecky wrote: >> Hm, so storing no longer needed branches outside of the refs/heads >> namespace (so that they don't show up in git branch) is a bad idea? > > You can store them outside refs/heads just fine, as long as they're > somewhere under refs. For example, refs/attic/ would be perfectly > safe. Ah, I missed that Joshua wants to put them outside of .git/refs (.git/p4). Slight but important difference :) tom