Re: [StGIT RFC PATCH] Don't use refs/bases/<branchname>

On 2007-05-02 13:17:01 +0200, Marco Costalba wrote:

On 5/2/07, Karl Hasselström [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

It's not near the top of my kill list by any stretch of the
imagination, so no need to worry. And even if it were, Catalin
would certainly stand as a wall of sanity between qgit and my
chain saw. :-)

Currently I check for the existence of <git dir>/patches directory
as a quick exit in case a repository does NOT have a StGIT repo on
it (the common case).

This avoids a costly and 99% of cases not needed 'stg <something>'
call.

I ask if it will be still a safe check in the long period or it is
better to change the check to something else (as existence of
<git dir>/refs/patches) instead ?

I personally have no plan to attempt to remove all of .git/patches --
a lot of data in there is redundant, but certainly not all of it, and
there's no compelling reason to move it. But Catalin has the final
word, of course.

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Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com
      www.treskal.com/kalle