Re: Reference for git.git release process

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:30:31PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

I do not answer "generally" part, but in git.git, I do not publish heads
of individual topic branches.  I could, but simply I don't, because that
has been the way I've operated so far, and I am too lazy to change my
configuration.

I don't think it is a big problem in practice. But every once in a while
I have had to dig through pu to re-create a topic branch manually. And I
believe Thomas Rast posted a script to do so automatically. So I think
there is some indication that people might find this information useful,
but I don't feel too strongly about it.

Also I suspect it would make my life more cumbersome
because I have to prune stale topics from the public repositories from
time to time.

Mirror mode would handle this automatically, but it unfortunately also
ignores your push refspec. So any cruft or work-in-progress refs in your
repository would be pushed.

-Peff