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

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 8, 2011, 09:41 UTC
Message-ID: <201106081141.26994.jnareb@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110603210156.GA1806@leaf>

On Fri, 3 June 2011, Josh Triplett wrote:

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> On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 01:35:34AM -0700, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> > 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.)

Note that for gitweb support we would need some easy way to list all namespaces that given repository provides. But that is for the future.

BTW. what do you think about treating repository with own refs and with namespaces similarly to how "forks" are handled in gitweb now?

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Jakub Narebski
Poland