From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Salikh Zakirov <salikh@gmail.com>
Cc: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>,
Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Introduce .git/BRANCH to point to the current branch
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:06:53 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v63ze3yiq.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4755CD32.7040204@gmail.com> (Salikh Zakirov's message of "Wed, 05 Dec 2007 06:57:06 +0900")
Salikh Zakirov <salikh@gmail.com> writes:
> Jakub Narebski wrote:
> ...
>> Please search the archives for idea of BASE extension to index
>> (instead of your separate file under .git/refs), and why it is
>> not in current git.
>
> I never realized this idea has been already tried. Thanks for the pointer!
> I would try to use BASE extension.
Start reading from here.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/44360/focus=44508
All of the articles in that thread is worth a read to understand why the
idea did not quite pan out and the whole series was reverted.
052737e33a898af8eb4f1bd97be046e05ecb9bea reverts the series from 'next'.
309202782399878a2d7973e21e6e62ba3b9fde50 was the last of the index-base
series.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-04 22:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-04 20:08 [RFC] Introduce .git/BRANCH to point to the current branch Salikh Zakirov
2007-12-04 20:19 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-12-04 20:42 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-12-04 20:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-04 21:32 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-12-04 21:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-04 22:04 ` [PATCH] git-checkout --push/--pop Nanako Shiraishi
2007-12-05 6:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-05 10:26 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-12-05 17:44 ` David Kågedal
2007-12-06 23:39 ` [RFC] Introduce .git/BRANCH to point to the current branch Robin Rosenberg
2007-12-04 21:57 ` Salikh Zakirov
2007-12-04 22:06 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2007-12-04 22:08 ` Jakub Narebski
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