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BreakingChanges: clarify branches/ and remotes/
As we have created an empty .git/branches/ hierarchy until fairly recently, these directories may be found in modern repositories, but it is highly unlikely that they are being used. Reported-by: Jakub Wilk <[email protected]> Acked-by: Patrick Steinhardt <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
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Documentation/BreakingChanges.txt

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@@ -169,8 +169,8 @@ started to migrate away from ".git/remotes/" in favor of config-based remotes,
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and we have marked the directory as legacy in 3d3d282146 (Documentation:
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Grammar correction, wording fixes and cleanup, 2011-08-23)
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As our documentation mentions, these directories are not to be found in modern
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repositories at all and most users aren't even aware of these mechanisms. They
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As our documentation mentions, these directories are unlikely to be used in
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modern repositories and most users aren't even aware of these mechanisms. They
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have been deprecated for almost 20 years and 14 years respectively, and we are
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not aware of any active users that have complained about this deprecation.
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Furthermore, the ".git/branches/" directory is nowadays misleadingly named and

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