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To: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
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>>>>> "DB" == Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:

DB> I've made a proposal like the following:

DB> .git/
DB>   objects/    (traditional)
DB>   refs/       Directories of hex SHA1 + newline files
DB>     heads/    Commits which are heads of various sorts
DB>     tags/     Tags, by the tag name (or some local renaming of it)
DB>   info/       Other shared information
DB>     remotes
DB>   ...         Everything else isn't shared
DB>   HEAD        Symlink to refs/heads/<something>

Thank you for clear description.

I agree with Linus that plumbing does not need to know anything
but objects/.  What the porcelain passes fsck-cache to implement
prune/garbage-collect does not concern it.  Of course it matters
to the users and that is the reason why I asked.