From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 21:32:14 GMT
Subject: Re: Malformed branch name in fast-export when specifying non-HEAD/branch revision
Message-ID: <20110822213214.GA14404@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vpqjxuogr.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 02:27:00PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > Yeah, the behavior of your patch looks fine to me. I thought the point
> > in contention was that having export understand refspecs would fix a lot
> > of _other_ cases, too.
> 
> Perhaps if we added refspecs we could cover other cases, too, but I do not
> think we need to require the patch to cover additional cases. The more
> problematic was that the particular implementation in the patch smelled
> bad.

OK. I didn't look at that at all. I just wanted to express my support
for "refspecs would solve other problems, too". :)

-Peff