From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 18:54:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] Reftable support for git-core
Message-ID: <CAFQ2z_P0X87bdCTSCXLHrV-M7vb+3BBjVmG+3CzYVY0RUHdKXg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20200203170555.GB3525@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Mon, Feb 3, 2020 at 6:05 PM Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> >   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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