Re: Marking abandoned branches

On 9/13/06, Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] wrote:

A Large Angry SCM wrote:

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

for

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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/

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(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/*

In order to make the tools easier to use I would turn this around and
make --all show all active branches and the use something like
--include /refs/abandoned to include the abandoned ones.

I wonder if using the "hidden" directory for abandoned branches
(i.e. refs/.abandoned) would work...
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Jakub Narebski
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