From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 21:44:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Change "refs/" references to symbolic constants
Message-ID: <7vslffcy80.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <200612141644.06167.andyparkins@gmail.com>

Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com> writes:

> Changed repeated use of the same constants for the ref paths to be
> symbolic constants.

This is not rejected nor forgotten but has not been applied yet,
and may not be immediately.

I would love to have this; it would reduce mistakes (spelling
"refs/head/" would silently compile fine and result in a broken
command, while spelling PATH_REFS_HEAD would be caught by the
compiler).

A sad thing is this needs to be done when things are relatively
quiescent.

So I would apply this before v1.5.0 (or a replacement, if you
have updates), but it might have to wait a bit until I I can say
"ok, no big patches to C part is pending right now and it is a
good time to do this clean-up".