From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Cc: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>, Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Marking abandoned branches
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:31:41 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0609131729500.19042@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060913152451.GH23891@pasky.or.cz>
Hi,
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Petr Baudis wrote:
> 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.
... or a tag (remember, you can stash a tag into refs/abandoned/, instead
of a commit) with the further benefit that you really cannot commit on top
of that.
> Object classes are precious things and we shouldn't get carried away.
Exactly.
Ciao,
Dscho
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-13 15:31 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 [this message]
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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