From: Felipe Contreras Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 17:20:42 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] git-remote-mediawiki: reset private ref after non-dumb push Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 4:36 PM, Matthieu Moy wrote: > Felipe Contreras writes: > >> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 8:31 AM, Matthieu Moy wrote: >> >>> Felipe: Is this the right fix for git-remote-mediawiki? Any better idea? >> >> Why not keep track of the revisions yourself? You can have file where >> you store which was the last revision that was fetched. > > I don't really understand the point of the "private namespace" anymore I > guess. Why do we have both refs/remotes/$remote and > refs/$foreign_vcs/$remote, if they are always kept in sync? They are not always in sync; if a push fails, the private namespace is not updated. > Keeping the last imported revision in a separate file would be possible, > but then we'd have information about the remote in one file plus two > refs, and I don't understand why we need to split the information in so > many places. A ref seemed the right tool to store a revision. As I said, they are not exactly the same. It is possible refs/remotes point to a mercurial revision on the remote server, and refs/hg points to a mercurial revision on the local internal repository, and they are not the same. -- Felipe Contreras