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From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Add --create-cache to repack
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 14:15:30 -0500
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On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> wrote:
> Let's define a ref hierarchy, refs/cache-pack, that names the cache pack
> tips. A cache pack would be generated for each ref found in that
> hierarchy. Then these commits are under user control even on github,
> because you can just push the refs. Junio would perhaps choose a release
> tag, and corresponding commits in the man and html histories. The choice
> would not be completely automatic, though.

This is just for bare repos, right? Why not just use HEAD?

j.