Re: Porcelain specific metadata under .git?

Andreas Ericsson wrote:

Shawn Pearce wrote:

quoted

I already assume/know that refs/heads and refs/tags are completely
off-limits as they are for user refs only.

I also think the core GIT tools already assume that anything
directly under .git which is strictly a file and which is named
entirely with uppercase letters (aside from "HEAD") is strictly a
temporary/short-lived state type item (e.g. COMMIT_MSG) used by a
Porcelain.

But is saying ".git/refs/eclipse-workspaces" is probably able to
be used for this purpose safe?  :-)

.git/eclipse/whatever-you-like

would probably be better. Heads can be stored directly under .git/refs 
too. Most likely, nothing will ever be stored under ./git/eclipse by 
either core git or the current (other) porcelains though.

I think if it is a ref, which one wants to be visible to git-fsck (and
git-prune), it should be under .git/refs.

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Jakub Narebski
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