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From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Marking abandoned branches
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:24:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060913152451.GH23891@pasky.or.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910609130817r39bbf8a8x2e05461816d9d2a1@mail.gmail.com>

Dear diary, on Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 05:17:59PM CEST, I got a letter
where Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> said that...
> Abandoned branches are common in CVS since it is not distributed.
> People start working on something in the main repo and then decide it
> was a bad idea. In the git world these branches usually don't end up
> in the main repo.

Can't you just toss the branch away in that case? :-)

You could also stash the ref to refs/heads-abandoned/ instead of
refs/heads/ if you want to keep the junk around for some reason. Of
course you don't get the nice marker with explanation of why is this
abandoned and who decided that, but you can just use an empty commit for
the same purpose.

Object classes are precious things and we shouldn't get carried away.

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
Snow falling on Perl. White noise covering line noise.
Hides all the bugs too. -- J. Putnam

  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-13 15:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-13 15:17 Marking abandoned branches Jon Smirl
2006-09-13 15:24 ` Petr Baudis [this message]
2006-09-13 15:31   ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-09-13 15:45     ` Jakub Narebski
2006-09-13 18:40     ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-13 18:51       ` Jakub Narebski
2006-09-13 19:00         ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-13 19:34           ` Jakub Narebski
2006-09-13 20:43             ` Petr Baudis
2006-09-13 20:45             ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-13 21:02               ` Jakub Narebski
2006-09-13 21:09               ` Jakub Narebski
2006-09-13 21:32               ` Jakub Narebski
2006-09-13 15:59   ` Jon Smirl
2006-09-13 16:05     ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-09-13 17:22       ` Jon Smirl
2006-09-13 17:32         ` Shawn Pearce
2006-09-13 17:46         ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-09-13 20:31         ` Martin Langhoff
2006-09-13 20:43           ` Jakub Narebski
2006-09-13 16:09     ` Shawn Pearce
2006-09-13 16:12     ` Jakub Narebski
2006-09-13 16:40       ` A Large Angry SCM
2006-09-13 16:49         ` Shawn Pearce
2006-09-13 18:58           ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-13 16:55         ` Jakub Narebski
2006-09-13 17:24           ` Jon Smirl
2006-09-13 17:45             ` Jakub Narebski
2006-09-14  3:37     ` Sam Vilain

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