On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 10:30:55AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Kristian Høgsberg <krh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > The code in git to read the info in .git/branches is still there, > > but nothing ever writes to this, so lets stop creating it. > > > > Signed-off-by: Kristian Høgsberg <krh@xxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > > > As far as I can see this should be safe, but I admit to never really > > knowing what .git/branches was originally used for - tracking remote > > branches or something? In any case, we only ever read from this dir > > so the only left in git to deal with this seems to be for compatibilty > > with older repos. > > This was done purely so that Cogito would not barf on a repository > initialized with "git init" even if it did not bother creating necessary > leading directories when it writes its rough equivalent to .git/remotes/ > information. I do not recall if Cogito had such a problem anymore, but > I think it can safely go when Cogito is effectively dead. OK, I don't know where cogito is in that respect, I thought maybe we had just forgotten we still created that directory. Should we just try to apply the patch to find out how it might interact with cogito? Kristian - 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
