Re: [RFC] fast-import: note deletion command

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Heya,

On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 22:35, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> ND commit_sha1 # One may think there are also NC, NR, NM
>> N delete commit_sha1
>> # Only :mark, full-40-byte-sha1 and 'inline' are allowed currently.
>> # So no clashes arise, but then one may also want M 'delete' path
>> # command to work too.
>
> If I were doing it:
>
>  - advertise "N 0{40} <commit>" as the historical way to delete a
>   note, and make sure it keeps working
>
>  - introduce 'ND' or 'notedelete <commit>' as a human-friendly
>   synonym, keeping in mind that NC and NR could be introduced in the
>   future if there is demand for them.

Is this perhaps a good moment to also think about branch deletion?
That came up earlier as well, and thinking about that might give us
some insights in how to deal with deletions uniformly.

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier
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