Re: Marking abandoned branches

A Large Angry SCM [off-list ref] wrote:

Jakub Narebski wrote:
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As it was said somewhere in this thread, you can use tags (tag objects) for
that, i.e. tag each of the abandoned branches, explaining why branch wa
abandoned for example, remove head refs, and move tag refs to
refs/abandoned or refs/tags-abandoned/ or refs/Attic/ or in refs-abandoned/
(the last has the advantage to not be included by default in any command,
even when --all is given)

Using $GIT_DIR/refs-abandoned/ means changing a number of core parts;
think fsck and friends. Better to decide on a name in $GIT_DIR/refs/ and
teach the various visualizers to ignore that prefix by default. Maybe
even make the name a config item. *ducks*

How about using a regex or a shell wildcard in config such as:

	[core]
		hideRefs = refs/abandoned/
		hideRefs = refs/some-garbage-i-have/

?

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Shawn.