From: "Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
To: "Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: "Petr Baudis" <pasky@suse.cz>, "Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Marking abandoned branches
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 13:22:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9e4733910609131022y19327efy541ac451bdf4b009@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0609131804050.19042@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
On 9/13/06, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Jon Smirl wrote:
>
> > Moving the refs into refs/abandoned would work too. We would need new
> > git commands to do this and flags on the visualization tools to
> > include the abandoned branches. On the other hand doing this is
> > recording state about the repository in the refs directory instead of
> > writing this state into the repo itself.
>
> Well, the refs directory is _part_ of the repository. Think about it, if
> you do not know which branches are in the object database, you lack a lot
> of information.
If you delete all of your heads you can recover them by following all
of the chains in the repo to find them. Doing this would recover the
abandoned branches too but it would mix them up with the active heads.
This is not a big deal but it is info that is getting stored outside
of the object db.
--
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-13 17:22 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
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 [this message]
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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