From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 13:48:20 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix overwritten remote ref on with fast-import.
Message-ID: <20120717134820.GE3071@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <1948960.GdZ6fLVixa@flobuntu>

Florian Achleitner wrote:
> On Monday 16 July 2012 22:27:25 Jonathan Nieder wrote:

>> Hm, that still doesn't look right.  The RHS of the refspec is supposed to
>> be a _private_ namespace for the remote helper, and refs/remotes/ is
>> not private.
[...]
> remote-svn now uses get_fetch_map to retrieve the local refs. So it respects 
> the fetch refspec in the config.

No no no no no.  That's transport-helper's job.

The RHS of the remote helper's refspec really is supposed to be
_private_.  Improvements to the documentation to clarify this would be
welcome.

Thanks,
Jonathan