Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] Reftable support for git-core
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Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
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- Feb 4, 2020, 18:54 UTC
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On Mon, Feb 3, 2020 at 6:05 PM Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
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> > HEAD - convincing enough for old versions to accept > > refs/ - a standard rwx directory > > reftable/ - a normal directory > > reftable-list - the list of tables > > reads/heads - a file containing "this repo uses reftables. Upgrade > > to git vXYZ" > > > > this would prevent people from erroneously creating normal branches. > > That seems reasonable. They could still write "refs/tags/foo", etc, but > presumably branches would be more common. >.. > > PS I don't know if it's set in stone yet, but if we're changing things > around, is it an option to put reftable-list inside the reftable > directory, just to keep the top-level uncluttered?
I put up https://git.eclipse.org/r/c/157167/ to update the spec inside JGit. Please review.
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