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On 28/12/16 07:02, Markus Lehtonen wrote:
> It's better just to not have the xml elements than to have elements with
> faux data. One could have git branch named 'unknown', for example.
>
>

I don't think is a good idea to completely remove the layer from the
metadata when such layer is not a repository, it would remove valuable
information for later analysis. And if you ask would do such a thing, I
would, I have my own debug layers that can mess with testing.