From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 20:54:47 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow fetching references from any namespace
Message-ID: <7vlkfv9j3c.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070511203522.GA2741@steel.home>

Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:

> not only from the three defined: heads, tags and remotes.
>
> Noticed when I tried to fetch the references created by git-p4-import.bat:
> they are placed into separate namespace (refs/p4import/, to avoid showing
> them in git-branch output). As canon_refs_list_for_fetch always prepended
> refs/heads/ it was impossible, and annoying: it worked before. Normally,
> the p4import references are useless anywhere but in the directory managed
> by perforce, but in this special case the cloned directory was supposed
> to be a backup, including the p4import branch: it keeps information about
> where the imported perforce state came from.

Have no objection to the patch itself, but mind pointing out
where we broke it (I suspect it is around 1.5.0)?