Le mercredi 06 mai 2009, à 02:21 +0300, Felipe Contreras a écrit : > Debian patches are debian patches, they control them, and they make > debian releases. If GNOME decides to remove those commits the > distributions will not loose their patches.
I think this summarize well the whole thing: we do not want to remove commits. [...] > If you really want to be safe you can create legacy (hidden) repos in > the case someone might need those commits. They will not waste any > space because git uses hard links when you clone locally. Then you can > delete all the legacy branches in the public (visible) repos while > still be confident no commit will be lost. If gazillions of branches/tags/whatever is an issue with git, then I'd say this is a git bug... I can see it being an issue when doing "git checkout <tab>" and I'd very much prefer to have git let me filter the branches/tags/whatever that are of interest to me via an option. Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list