From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [RFC] Introduce .git/BRANCH to point to the current branch Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:06:53 -0800 Message-ID: <7v63ze3yiq.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <4755B3B3.80704@gmail.com> <4755CD32.7040204@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jakub Narebski , Matthieu Moy , Git Mailing List To: Salikh Zakirov X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Dec 04 23:07:37 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IzfvF-0003Zm-L0 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:07:22 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751684AbXLDWHA (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Dec 2007 17:07:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751717AbXLDWHA (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Dec 2007 17:07:00 -0500 Received: from sceptre.pobox.com ([207.106.133.20]:35360 "EHLO sceptre.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751613AbXLDWG7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Dec 2007 17:06:59 -0500 Received: from sceptre (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by sceptre.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47DF8325; Tue, 4 Dec 2007 17:07:21 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (ip68-225-240-77.oc.oc.cox.net [68.225.240.77]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by sceptre.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B78EF9C008; Tue, 4 Dec 2007 17:07:16 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <4755CD32.7040204@gmail.com> (Salikh Zakirov's message of "Wed, 05 Dec 2007 06:57:06 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Salikh Zakirov 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.