We've had the public_heads for as long as we've had the View object,
IIRC (I didn't check), but we still don't use it for anything. I don't
have any concrete plans for using it either. Maybe our config for
immutable commits is good enough, or maybe we'll want something more
generic (like Mercurial's phases). For now, I think we should simplify
by removing it the storage for public heads.
When debugging behavior of badly-GCed repos, I find it's annoying that "op log"
fails because the index can't be loaded. Since "op log" doesn't need a repo, I
think it's better to display the exact op-heads state without merging.
There's a subtle behavior change. Unlike the original remove_remote_branch(),
remote_views entry is not discarded when the branches map becomes empty. The
reasoning here is that the remote view can be added/removed when the remote
is added/removed respectively, though that's not implemented yet. Since the
serialized data cannot represent an empty remote, such view may generate
non-unique content hash.
