Re: [PATCH v2] upload-pack: Fail if cloning empty namespace

From: Johannes Löthberg <johannes@kyriasis.com>
Date: Jun 20, 2015, 14:27 UTC
Message-ID: <20150620142705.GA23163@leeloo.kyriasis.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqh9q87l3x.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

On 15/06, Junio C Hamano wrote:

>You would probably want new tests, but more importantly did you make
>sure this passes existing tests?  It seems to break 5509 (there
>could be others) at least for me.
>

It breaks 5509 currently yeah, though I've already fixed it locally.

Anyway,

You create a namespace by pushing to it, and without a HEAD the namespace is not a proper repo, and the code won't deal with them properly. (Which is why without that patch this patch is useless.)

So, if you don't want HEAD to be created when pushing to a ref namespace, (which seems to be what you're leaning toward, considering your last reply to the other thread,) then ref namespaces won't really work in most cases, and it seems pointless to support them at all.

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