From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: Marking abandoned branches Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 20:51:36 +0200 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: <9e4733910609130817r39bbf8a8x2e05461816d9d2a1@mail.gmail.com> <20060913152451.GH23891@pasky.or.cz> <7vmz93a9v9.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Sep 13 20:52:45 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GNZqT-0004pl-4S for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 20:52:25 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751106AbWIMSwV (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Sep 2006 14:52:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751111AbWIMSwV (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Sep 2006 14:52:21 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:5269 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751106AbWIMSwU (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Sep 2006 14:52:20 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GNZq8-0004kE-4V for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 20:52:04 +0200 Received: from 193.0.122.19 ([193.0.122.19]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 20:52:04 +0200 Received: from jnareb by 193.0.122.19 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 20:52:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: git@vger.kernel.org X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.0.122.19 Mail-Copies-To: jnareb@gmail.com User-Agent: KNode/0.10.2 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano wrote: > Using tag has an added benefit that you now have a place to say > why you dropped it. So what we would need to support this is an > agreed-upon name under $GIT_DIR/refs/ that is omitted from > display by convention across Porcelains (the core side should > not ignore them because even when you are abandoning them, you > do not want to lose them), I think that using hidden directory (dot-directory), e.g. $GIT_DIR/refs/.abandoned/ is a good idea... unless it conflicts somewhat with the way lock files are named... -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git