Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Modern git Porcelains write remote definitions solely to .git/config, but
> still reads from .git/{branches,remotes}.
...
> Andrew Morton explicitly asked for this to be kept a few years
> ago and I do not see a reason to deprecate this.
...
> Shawn and other wants to stop JGit from creating this directory on
I probably said something like this. I won't bother denying it,
because list archives are more accurate than my own fallible memory.
But I didn't know the Andrew Morton part above. After hearing it
from you, I'm reversing my (apparent) direction here. We should
continue to create the branches directory within a new repository.
Sorry Robin, but Andrew Morton matters. Its one stupid unused
directory in a repository that will chew through thousands of inodes
as loose objects. Its a drop in the bucket in terms of resource
cost used by Git. And Andrew is someone whose workflow we don't
want to break if we can avoid it. He's a long time Git user who is
also high up in the kernel food chain. Interrupting him disrupts
a fair chunk of kernel work while he grumbles about the Goddamn
Idiotic Truckload of s**t that Linus begat.
> This patch alone breaks tests in the t55?? series quite a lot,
Drop the patch.
--
Shawn.
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