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Re* [1.8.0] Provide proper remote ref namespaces

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Feb 14, 2011, 18:06 UTC
Message-ID
<7vfwrqtrsk.fsf_-_@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To
<201102141018.46527.johan@herland.net>
Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> writes:
> It's not, except that "refs/*:refs/remotes/origin/*" would fetch a too-large 
> superset. E.g. it would fetch "refs/remotes/third-party/heads/foo" into 
> "refs/remotes/origin/remotes/third-party/heads/foo", which we probably don't 
> want.

Ah, very true. We are generally not interested in remote's remotes that possibly include ourselves ;-)

Show 8 quoted lines
> "Now you could argue that auto-follow is not worth the effort. It is
> somewhat confusing, and I can't think of a time when it ever actually
> reduced the set of objects I was fetching (as opposed to just fetching
> all tags). But maybe others have use cases where it matters."
>
> So if nobody disagree, I would have no problem with dropping the leading "~" 
> from the refspec, thus disabling auto-following (tracking all tags 
> explicitly instead).

I am not sure what you mean by this. I think we agree that it would be Ok if you cannot add "~" in front to cause automatic following when tracking tags in separate namespaces using "refs/tags/*:refs/remotes/origin/tags/*".

But are you saying:
 (1) There is no other change than that; or
 (2) Even when not using such a refspec i.e. using the traditional "tags
     live in a single global namespace", automatic following feature will
     be disabled;
I would be moderately unhappy if the latter.
> ... However, what I've seen at $dayjob is 
> that more inexperienced users will often push right after committing, and at 
> that time they're still very much in the "working-on-one-branch" state of 
> mind (as opposed to the "administering-multiple-branches" state of mind),...

Then "current" mode is a good setting for them, I would presume. I don't think it is a bad idea to make that the default given sufficient lead time to warn the current users, and if we want to make the switch at 1.8.0, the time to start issuing a warning is now. Perhaps like this.

-- >8 --
Subject: [1.8.0 RFC] push: start warning upcoming default change for push.default

More inexperienced users will often push right after committing, and at that time they're still very much in the "working-on-one-branch" state of mind. "current" would be a safer default mode of operation for 'git push' for them even when they have their personal publishing repository (also in a shared public repository settings, "matching" is rarely the right default mode).

In preparation for flipping the default to the "current" mode from the "matching" mode that is the current default, start warning users when they rely on unconfigured "git push" to default to the "matching" mode.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 builtin/push.c |   13 +++++++++++++
 cache.h        |    1 +
 environment.c  |    2 +-
 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin/push.c b/builtin/push.c
index e655eb7..fe6665e 100644
--- a/builtin/push.c
+++ b/builtin/push.c
@@ -80,10 +80,23 @@ static void setup_push_tracking(void)
 	add_refspec(refspec.buf);
 }
 
+static void warn_unspecified_push_default_configuration(void)
+{
+	static int warn_once;
+
+	if (warn_once++)
+		return;
+	warning("You do not have an explicit 'matching' setting for push.default");
+	warning("Your workflow will be broken at 1.8.0 unless you do so now");
+}
+
 static void setup_default_push_refspecs(void)
 {
 	switch (push_default) {
 	default:
+	case PUSH_DEFAULT_UNSPECIFIED:
+		warn_unspecified_push_default_configuration();
+		/* fallthru */
 	case PUSH_DEFAULT_MATCHING:
 		add_refspec(":");
 		break;
diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index d83d68c..6c47867 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -606,6 +606,7 @@ enum rebase_setup_type {
 };
 
 enum push_default_type {
+	PUSH_DEFAULT_UNSPECIFIED = -1,
 	PUSH_DEFAULT_NOTHING = 0,
 	PUSH_DEFAULT_MATCHING,
 	PUSH_DEFAULT_TRACKING,
diff --git a/environment.c b/environment.c
index 9564475..577177f 100644
--- a/environment.c
+++ b/environment.c
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ enum safe_crlf safe_crlf = SAFE_CRLF_WARN;
 unsigned whitespace_rule_cfg = WS_DEFAULT_RULE;
 enum branch_track git_branch_track = BRANCH_TRACK_REMOTE;
 enum rebase_setup_type autorebase = AUTOREBASE_NEVER;
-enum push_default_type push_default = PUSH_DEFAULT_MATCHING;
+enum push_default_type push_default = PUSH_DEFAULT_UNSPECIFIED;
 #ifndef OBJECT_CREATION_MODE
 #define OBJECT_CREATION_MODE OBJECT_CREATION_USES_HARDLINKS
 #endif
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  4. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyFeb 1, 2011
  5. Marc BranchaudFeb 2, 2011
  6. Jeff KingFeb 1, 2011
  7. Sverre RabbelierFeb 1, 2011
  8. [1.8.0] Provide proper remote ref namespacesJohan Herland, Feb 2, 2011
  9. Santi BéjarFeb 2, 2011
  10. Johan HerlandFeb 2, 2011
  11. Santi BéjarFeb 2, 2011
  12. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyFeb 3, 2011
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  15. Johan HerlandFeb 3, 2011
  16. Santi BéjarFeb 3, 2011
  17. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyFeb 3, 2011
  18. Junio C HamanoFeb 4, 2011
  19. Johan HerlandFeb 5, 2011
  20. Kevin P. FlemingFeb 5, 2011
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  49. Re* [1.8.0] Provide proper remote ref namespacesJunio C Hamano, Feb 14, 2011
  50. Jay SoffianFeb 14, 2011
  51. Sverre RabbelierFeb 14, 2011
  52. Jay SoffianFeb 14, 2011
  53. Jonathan NiederFeb 14, 2011
  54. Jay SoffianFeb 14, 2011
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  56. Matthieu MoyFeb 14, 2011
  57. Jeff KingFeb 14, 2011
  58. Sverre RabbelierFeb 14, 2011
  59. Jonathan NiederFeb 14, 2011
  60. Junio C HamanoFeb 14, 2011
  61. Junio C HamanoFeb 14, 2011
  62. Johan HerlandFeb 15, 2011
  63. Junio C HamanoFeb 15, 2011
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  66. Matthieu MoyFeb 16, 2011
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  70. Sverre RabbelierFeb 16, 2011
  71. Junio C HamanoFeb 16, 2011
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  73. Junio C HamanoFeb 16, 2011
  74. Martin von ZweigbergkFeb 18, 2011
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  76. Bernhard R. LinkFeb 16, 2011
  77. Jakub NarebskiFeb 14, 2011
  78. Marc BranchaudFeb 14, 2011
  79. Nicolas PitreFeb 14, 2011
  80. Junio C HamanoFeb 14, 2011
  81. Nicolas PitreFeb 14, 2011
  82. Sverre RabbelierFeb 14, 2011
  83. Matthieu MoyFeb 7, 2011
  84. Dmitry PotapovFeb 7, 2011
  85. Nicolas PitreFeb 5, 2011
  86. Jeff KingFeb 5, 2011
  87. Nicolas PitreFeb 5, 2011
  88. Johan HerlandFeb 5, 2011
  89. Junio C HamanoFeb 6, 2011
  90. Marc BranchaudFeb 7, 2011
  91. Junio C HamanoFeb 7, 2011
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  93. Jeff KingFeb 7, 2011
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  95. Jeff KingFeb 7, 2011
  96. Nicolas PitreFeb 7, 2011
  97. Jeff KingFeb 7, 2011
  98. Johan HerlandFeb 1, 2011
  99. Nicolas PitreFeb 7, 2011
  100. Dmitry PotapovFeb 8, 2011
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