Re: [PATCH] Allow to control the namespace for replace refs

From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date: Jun 11, 2015, 20:46 UTC
Message-ID: <20150611204611.GA10114@glandium.org>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq1thigtsd.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 08:16:02AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> writes:
> 
> > I do agree that this is all confusing, but allow me to point out that
> > it's already plenty confusing: "namespace" is a term that has been used to
> > designate a generic kind of namespace *and* refs/namespaces. See for
> > example:
> >
> > https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/git-describe.txt#L39
> > https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/git-fetch.txt#L113
> > https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt#L36
> > (note how this one is specifically about refs/replace/)
> > there are many more.
> 
> "One more breakage does not hurt" is not something we want to see.

I won't disagree here, but we are in desperate need for a word for those namespaces that aren't refs/namespaces, and stick to it (independently of the replace patch), but I've never seen one.

Mike