Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add --expand to 'git notes get-ref'

From: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Date: Sep 5, 2012, 22:44 UTC
Message-ID: <CALKQrgc-NZJrxvm_gJcWYCpsOprF=Rzf8=jGuARoit53T8KVkw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120905175344.GA8619@odin.tremily.us>

On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 7:53 PM, W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us> wrote:

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> On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 05:58:37PM +0200, Johan Herland wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 2:48 PM, W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us> wrote:
>> > If I'm missing a good reason to keep everything under
>> > 'refs/notes/', feel free to ignore the second patch.
>>
>> This has been discussed a couple of times on this list, but it never
>> resulted in any actual changes. Read up on this thread to get some
>> context:
>>
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/160503
>
> Thanks for the pointer, it looks like there are a bunch of good ideas.
> I assume the lack of changes was due to nobody having the
> time/inclination to implement
>
>   http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/160655

Yes, I think time/inclination probably has a lot to do with it. Also, I forgot to link to the largest mailing list thread that discusses these changes in _much_ more detail:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/165799/focus=165885

As you can see, the discussion quickly balloons into something much larger than a simple discussion of where remote notes should be located...

That said, your patch 2/2 might be an acceptable stopgap measure for the time being, and then we can reevaluate it if/when we implement a larger ref restructuring.

...Johan

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Johan Herland, <johan@herland.net>
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