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Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitweb: prepare for repositories with packed refs.
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Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:

> Having HEAD a dangling
> symlink is just wrong...

While I still disagree with this statement, as a practical
issue, I think it might make sense to have an option to
pack-refs to pack only tags, which are supposed to be mostly
immutable.  Or even introduce --all option and make the default
pack only tags.  Your branches point at commits waiting to be
updated, and if you have remote tracking branches they are meant
to be updated every time you fetch from that remote; otherwise
you would not be using tracking branches but merging straight
into your branch.

Also you are likely to do pack-refs (or whatever repository-wide
git operations) while on an active branch (be it "master" or
some non-master branch similar to my "next" or "pu"), and for
that reason I suspect packing the current branch is almost
always not very useful.  Active branches are by definition
expected to frequently change.