Re: Adding more namespace support to git

> On 21 August 2016 at 03:05, Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> wrote:
> > Unfortunately, I think at this point, GIT_NAMESPACE has to exclusively
> > refer to the namespace for the remote end, to avoid breakage.  Which
> > means any automatic pervasive support for namespaces on the local side
> > would need to use a different mechanism.  (In addition to applying to
> > ref enumeration, this would also need to apply to the local end of
> > refspecs.)  And this new mechanism would need to not affect the remote
> > end, to allow remapping the local end while accessing an un-namespaced
> > (or differently namespaced) remote.
> 
> The problem for hooks is that it is implicitly inherited,
> so it could work if upload-pack receive-pack and http-backend work
> with GIT_NAMESPACE set,
> but everything else that wants to use a namespace has to set
> --namespace on the command-line.