Re: [PATCH 6/7] refname_match(): Caller must declare if we're matching local or remote refs

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: May 7, 2013, 01:48 UTC
Message-ID: <7vsj1zo8zu.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1367711749-8812-7-git-send-email-johan@herland.net>

Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> writes:

> refname_match() is used to check whether a given shorthand name matches a
> given full refname, but that full refname does not always belong in the
> local repo, rather it is sometimes taken from list of refs sent over from
> a remote repo.

That "local vs remote" is a wrong way to think about things.

All refs you can feed to resolve_ref() and dwim_ref() are local, and "remotes" is not all that special. It is just a convention to store many different kind of things per different hierarchy, and the only special hierarchy we have is refs/heads/* that can be updated by making new commits through the index and the working tree.

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