From: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:06:36 GMT
Subject: Re: Why aren't tag refs namespaced?
Message-ID: <4F99AACC.2050409@xiplink.com>
In-Reply-To: <CA+7g9Jxc6eaCUR8aVhqKH--sOrvQVrZn+se7wtFJsOiKNjz9Pg@mail.gmail.com>

On 12-04-26 02:40 PM, Nathan Gray wrote:
> Hey guys,
> 
> Namespacing works really well for branch refs.  I know that
> remotes/origin/master is origin's master branch.  I may or may not
> have a master branch, and it may or may not have anything in common
> with origin's.  Our repositories are independent, after all, so it
> makes sense that our refs would live in different namespaces.
> 
> So why is it that tag refs don't follow this model?  Why is my
> "best-commit-ever" tag assumed to be the same as origin's?  Given a
> ref in refs/tags it's unclear if the ref is public, private, on origin
> or not on origin.  Will pushing my tags create anything new or not?
> Who knows?  Compare this to branches, where the same questions are
> easy to answer thanks to namespacing.

There was lengthy, but inconclusive, discussion about this a year ago:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/165799/focus=166290

		M.