From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 23:22:05 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCHv5 2/4] Add infrastructure for ref namespaces
Message-ID: <7vd3iua4bm.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1307136593-16306-3-git-send-email-jamey@minilop.net>

Jamey Sharp <jamey@minilop.net> writes:

> Note that namespaces which include a / will expand to a hierarchy of
> namespaces; for example, GIT_NAMESPACE=foo/bar will store refs under
> refs/namespaces/foo/refs/namespaces/bar/.  This makes GIT_NAMESPACE
> behave hierarchically, and avoids ambiguity with namespaces such as
> foo/refs/heads.

I would have expected that this explanation would be improved after you
having to answer my question on the list.  Otherwise it was a wasted
effort, for both me (asking) and you (answering).

>
> This adds the infrastructure for ref namespaces: handling the
> GIT_NAMESPACE environment variable and --namespace option, and iterating
> over refs in a namespace.  Subsequent commits use this infrastructure to
> implement the user-visible support for ref namespaces.
>
> Commit by Josh Triplett and Jamey Sharp.

Also please drop that "Commit by ...".  We can read Sign-off.