Re: Marking abandoned branches

A Large Angry SCM wrote:

Jakub Narebski wrote:
...

quoted

As it was said somewhere in this thread, you can use tags (tag objects)

for

quoted

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/

quoted

(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*

Well, visualisers IIRC shows only requested branches. The only place where
abandoned branches would show even when we probably don't want would be
--all... one can try to use --all --not refs/abandoned/*

I wonder if using the "hidden" directory for abandoned branches 
(i.e. refs/.abandoned) would work...
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git