On 9/13/06, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxx - 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