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Re: [1.8.0] Remote tag namespace

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Feb 1, 2011, 18:14 UTC
Message-ID
<20110201181428.GA6579@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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<AANLkTi=yFwOAQMHhvLsB1_xmYOE9HHP2YB4H4TQzwwc8@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 05:44:50PM +0700, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
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> OK I'm not familiar with tag code, but I can try.
> 
> Proposal:
> 
> Reserve refs/remote-tags namespace to store tags from remotes. Its
> structure is the same as in refs/remotes. When pulling tags, put them
> in refs/remote-tags/<remote> instead of refs/tags.
> Tag dereference code will be taught about refs/remote-tags with
> similar deref order as in remote branches.

There are similar questions around remote notes refs. Should there also be a refs/remote-notes? And there was some discussion recently about fetching remote replace refs.

Should we perhaps be massaging refs/remotes into a structure to handle all of these things? Like:

  refs/remotes/origin/HEAD (-> refs/remotes/origin/heads/master)
  refs/remotes/origin/heads/master
  refs/remotes/origin/tags/v1.7.4
  refs/remotes/origin/notes/commit
  refs/remotes/origin/replace/f67e92af477a2255b64a1ece33d9d126e763fe9b

i.e., make refs/remotes/* an actual mirror of selected parts of the remote's refs/ hierarchy. And then figure out sane rules for merging those namespaces into the ref lookup procedure. For heads and tags, probably some tweaking of the lookup rules in dwim_ref; for replacements, probably you would want to manually say "I am interested in this replace" and copy or symref-link it into your refs/ hierarchy. And probably something similar with notes.

Obviously I haven't thought it all the way through, but it just seems a shame not to deal with other similar issues when looking at tags.

-Peff
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Message 6 of 104 in “[1.8.0] Remote tag namespace”
  1. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyFeb 1, 2011
  2. Leo RazoumovFeb 1, 2011
  3. Marc BranchaudFeb 1, 2011
  4. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyFeb 1, 2011
  5. Marc BranchaudFeb 2, 2011
  6. Jeff KingFeb 1, 2011
  7. Sverre RabbelierFeb 1, 2011
  8. [1.8.0] Provide proper remote ref namespacesJohan Herland, Feb 2, 2011
  9. Santi BéjarFeb 2, 2011
  10. Johan HerlandFeb 2, 2011
  11. Santi BéjarFeb 2, 2011
  12. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyFeb 3, 2011
  13. Johan HerlandFeb 3, 2011
  14. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyFeb 3, 2011
  15. Johan HerlandFeb 3, 2011
  16. Santi BéjarFeb 3, 2011
  17. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyFeb 3, 2011
  18. Junio C HamanoFeb 4, 2011
  19. Johan HerlandFeb 5, 2011
  20. Kevin P. FlemingFeb 5, 2011
  21. Dmitry PotapovFeb 5, 2011
  22. Johan HerlandFeb 6, 2011
  23. Dmitry PotapovFeb 6, 2011
  24. Nicolas PitreFeb 6, 2011
  25. Dmitry PotapovFeb 6, 2011
  26. Johan HerlandFeb 6, 2011
  27. Dmitry PotapovFeb 6, 2011
  28. Johan HerlandFeb 6, 2011
  29. Dmitry PotapovFeb 7, 2011
  30. Bernhard R. LinkFeb 7, 2011
  31. Dmitry PotapovFeb 8, 2011
  32. Matthieu MoyFeb 6, 2011
  33. Johan HerlandFeb 6, 2011
  34. Matthieu MoyFeb 6, 2011
  35. Johan HerlandFeb 7, 2011
  36. Jeff KingFeb 7, 2011
  37. Johan HerlandFeb 7, 2011
  38. Sverre RabbelierFeb 7, 2011
  39. Johan HerlandFeb 7, 2011
  40. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyFeb 7, 2011
  41. Jeff KingFeb 7, 2011
  42. Johan HerlandFeb 8, 2011
  43. Jakub NarebskiFeb 11, 2011
  44. Johan HerlandFeb 13, 2011
  45. Junio C HamanoFeb 14, 2011
  46. Johan HerlandFeb 14, 2011
  47. Jakub NarebskiFeb 14, 2011
  48. Junio C HamanoFeb 14, 2011
  49. Re* [1.8.0] Provide proper remote ref namespacesJunio C Hamano, Feb 14, 2011
  50. Jay SoffianFeb 14, 2011
  51. Sverre RabbelierFeb 14, 2011
  52. Jay SoffianFeb 14, 2011
  53. Jonathan NiederFeb 14, 2011
  54. Jay SoffianFeb 14, 2011
  55. Jonathan NiederFeb 14, 2011
  56. Matthieu MoyFeb 14, 2011
  57. Jeff KingFeb 14, 2011
  58. Sverre RabbelierFeb 14, 2011
  59. Jonathan NiederFeb 14, 2011
  60. Junio C HamanoFeb 14, 2011
  61. Junio C HamanoFeb 14, 2011
  62. Johan HerlandFeb 15, 2011
  63. Junio C HamanoFeb 15, 2011
  64. push.default: Rename 'tracking' to 'upstream'Johan Herland, Feb 16, 2011
  65. Junio C HamanoFeb 16, 2011
  66. Matthieu MoyFeb 16, 2011
  67. Martin von ZweigbergkFeb 16, 2011
  68. Jakub NarebskiFeb 16, 2011
  69. Matthieu MoyFeb 16, 2011
  70. Sverre RabbelierFeb 16, 2011
  71. Junio C HamanoFeb 16, 2011
  72. Sverre RabbelierFeb 16, 2011
  73. Junio C HamanoFeb 16, 2011
  74. Martin von ZweigbergkFeb 18, 2011
  75. Martin von ZweigbergkFeb 18, 2011
  76. Bernhard R. LinkFeb 16, 2011
  77. Jakub NarebskiFeb 14, 2011
  78. Marc BranchaudFeb 14, 2011
  79. Nicolas PitreFeb 14, 2011
  80. Junio C HamanoFeb 14, 2011
  81. Nicolas PitreFeb 14, 2011
  82. Sverre RabbelierFeb 14, 2011
  83. Matthieu MoyFeb 7, 2011
  84. Dmitry PotapovFeb 7, 2011
  85. Nicolas PitreFeb 5, 2011
  86. Jeff KingFeb 5, 2011
  87. Nicolas PitreFeb 5, 2011
  88. Johan HerlandFeb 5, 2011
  89. Junio C HamanoFeb 6, 2011
  90. Marc BranchaudFeb 7, 2011
  91. Junio C HamanoFeb 7, 2011
  92. Nicolas PitreFeb 7, 2011
  93. Jeff KingFeb 7, 2011
  94. Nicolas PitreFeb 7, 2011
  95. Jeff KingFeb 7, 2011
  96. Nicolas PitreFeb 7, 2011
  97. Jeff KingFeb 7, 2011
  98. Johan HerlandFeb 1, 2011
  99. Nicolas PitreFeb 7, 2011
  100. Dmitry PotapovFeb 8, 2011
  101. Johan HerlandFeb 8, 2011
  102. Enrico WeigeltFeb 8, 2011
  103. Junio C HamanoFeb 8, 2011
  104. Johan HerlandFeb 9, 2011

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