On 2007-05-02 13:17:01 +0200, Marco Costalba wrote:
> On 5/2/07, Karl Hasselström <kha@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > It's not near the top of my kill list by any stretch of the
> > imagination, so no need to worry. And even if it were, Catalin
> > would certainly stand as a wall of sanity between qgit and my
> > chain saw. :-)
>
> Currently I check for the existence of <git dir>/patches directory
> as a quick exit in case a repository does NOT have a StGIT repo on
> it (the common case).
>
> This avoids a costly and 99% of cases not needed 'stg <something>'
> call.
>
> I ask if it will be still a safe check in the long period or it is
> better to change the check to something else (as existence of
> <git dir>/refs/patches) instead ?
I personally have no plan to attempt to remove all of .git/patches --
a lot of data in there is redundant, but certainly not all of it, and
there's no compelling reason to move it. But Catalin has the final
word, of course.
--
Karl Hasselström, kha@xxxxxxxxxxx
www.treskal.com/kalle
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