Re: [1.8.0] Provide proper remote ref namespaces

> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 09:58, Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> wrote:
> > This is the same technique we use when talking about branch names:
> > On this mailing list, nobody is confused when I refer to 'maint',
> > 'master', 'next' and 'pu'. Still, in our own work repos (at least
> > in mine), these branches are actually called
> > "refs/remotes/origin/<name>" (commonly referred to by their
> > shorthands "origin/<name>"). Here we are, juggling the same kind of
> > namespaces that I propose for tags, and it seems to work well
> > without causing much confusion.
>
> With the difference that you can't refer to "maint" as just "maint"
> unless you've created "refs/heads/maint" iff it is unambiguous.