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@xxxxxxxxx> 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html