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Re: [PATCHv4 2/4] Add infrastructure for ref namespaces

From
Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Date
Jun 3, 2011, 21:01 UTC
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On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 01:35:34AM -0700, Jakub Narebski wrote:
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> Jamey Sharp <jamey@minilop.net> writes:
> 
> > From: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
> > 
> > Add support for dividing the refs of a single repository into multiple
> > namespaces, each of which can have its own branches, tags, and HEAD.
> > Git can expose each namespace as an independent repository to pull from
> > and push to, while sharing the object store, and exposing all the refs
> > to operations such as git-gc.
> [...]
> 
> By the way, after this feature is merged in, would you like for gitweb
> to understand ref namespaces and offer browsing of separate namespaces
> (sub-repositories)?

Yes, definitely! We'd love to see gitweb handling namespaces transparently, and presenting them identically to top-level repositories. (Also, gitweb would need to present the appropriate repository URIs for cloning.)

Thanks, Josh Triplett and Jamey Sharp

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Message 8 of 20 in “[PATCHv4 1/4] Refactor for_each_ref variants to use for_each_ref_in and avoid magic numbers”
  1. Jamey SharpJun 1, 2011
  2. 2/4 Add infrastructure for ref namespacesJamey Sharp, Jun 1, 2011
  3. Junio C HamanoJun 2, 2011
  4. Josh TriplettJun 2, 2011
  5. Junio C HamanoJun 3, 2011
  6. Josh TriplettJun 3, 2011
  7. Jakub NarebskiJun 3, 2011
  8. Josh TriplettJun 3, 2011
  9. Jakub NarebskiJun 8, 2011
  10. Josh TriplettJun 9, 2011
  11. Jakub NarebskiJun 9, 2011
  12. 3/4 Support ref namespaces for remote repositories via upload-pack and receive-packJamey Sharp, Jun 1, 2011
  13. Junio C HamanoJun 2, 2011
  14. josh@joshtriplett.orgJun 3, 2011
  15. Junio C HamanoJun 3, 2011
  16. 4/4 Add documentation for ref namespacesJamey Sharp, Jun 1, 2011
  17. Junio C HamanoJun 2, 2011
  18. Josh TriplettJun 2, 2011
  19. Junio C HamanoJun 2, 2011
  20. Jakub NarebskiJun 3, 2011

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