From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Kristian Høgsberg" <krh@bitplanet.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove .git/branches from the .git template.
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2007 10:30:55 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v3aubpvog.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071209183856.GA5587@bitplanet.net> (Kristian Høgsberg's message of "Sun, 9 Dec 2007 13:38:56 -0500")
Kristian Høgsberg <krh@bitplanet.net> writes:
> The code in git to read the info in .git/branches is still there,
> but nothing ever writes to this, so lets stop creating it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kristian Høgsberg <krh@redhat.com>
> ---
>
> As far as I can see this should be safe, but I admit to never really
> knowing what .git/branches was originally used for - tracking remote
> branches or something? In any case, we only ever read from this dir
> so the only left in git to deal with this seems to be for compatibilty
> with older repos.
This was done purely so that Cogito would not barf on a repository
initialized with "git init" even if it did not bother creating necessary
leading directories when it writes its rough equivalent to .git/remotes/
information. I do not recall if Cogito had such a problem anymore, but
I think it can safely go when Cogito is effectively dead.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-09 18:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-09 18:38 [PATCH] Remove .git/branches from the .git template Kristian Høgsberg
2007-12-09 18:30 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2007-12-10 4:34 ` Kristian Høgsberg
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