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. BTW the moving of a branch to a tag in refs/abandoned/ is trivial. 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