Re: Porcelain specific metadata under .git?

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: 2006-06-14 21:11:19
Shawn Pearce wrote:
> 
> I already assume/know that refs/heads and refs/tags are completely
> off-limits as they are for user refs only.
> 
> I also think the core GIT tools already assume that anything
> directly under .git which is strictly a file and which is named
> entirely with uppercase letters (aside from "HEAD") is strictly a
> temporary/short-lived state type item (e.g. COMMIT_MSG) used by a
> Porcelain.
> 
> But is saying ".git/refs/eclipse-workspaces" is probably able to
> be used for this purpose safe?  :-)
> 

.git/eclipse/whatever-you-like

would probably be better. Heads can be stored directly under .git/refs 
too. Most likely, nothing will ever be stored under ./git/eclipse by 
either core git or the current (other) porcelains though.

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