Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> This is a cleanup operation to get rid of the historical
> $GIT_DIR/{branches,remotes} cruft. Mostly no-brainers that don't
> deserve a second look.
Only reacting to "no-brainer".
The last time I hinted removal of .git/branches/, Andrew Morton
reminded me that there are those who use Git primarily to fetch from
many dozens of other people's branches, to maintain his own quilt
patch series on top of, and never push anything back. To them,
being able to say
$ echo the-repository-url#the-branch >.git/branches/the-subsys
$ rm .git/branches/the-subsys
has been a much easier and simpler way than "git config". The only
thing they do with them is essentially:
$ git fetch the-subsys
... use FETCH_HEAD to integrate it to a larger whole
... against which his remaining quilt queue is rebuilt
I myself thought that replacing the established work process of
these people to the one that instead uses "git config" should be
simple enough even back then, and in the longer term, these old
mechanisms will become disused so that we can remove them, but
deciding _when_ is the good time is not a no-brainer at all.
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