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Re: What's cooking in git.git (Dec 2025, #02)

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Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 10, 2025, 10:04 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
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> Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> * kn/ref-location (2025-12-01) 2 commits
>>>  - refs: add GIT_REF_URI to specify reference backend and directory
>>>  - refs: support obtaining ref_store for given dir
>>>
>>>  A mechanism to specify what reference backend to use and store
>>>  references in which directory is introduced, which would likely to
>>>  be useful during ref migration.
>>>
>>>  Comments?
>>>  source: <20251201-kn-alternate-ref-dir-v3-0-c11b946bc2fa@gmail.com>
>>
>> I'm currently on leave. While I do plan to work on this, my next version
>> which is based on Patricks recent review will be a bit delayed.
>
> Understood.  Thanks for a note.
>
>>> * kn/fix-fetch-backfill-tag-with-batched-ref-updates (2025-11-21) 3 commits
>>>  - fetch: fix failed batched updates skipping operations
>>>  - fetch: fix non-conflicting tags not being committed
>>>  - fetch: extract out reference committing logic
>>>
>>>  "git fetch" that involves fetching tags, when a tag being fetched
>>>  needs to overwrite existing one, failed to fetch other tags, which
>>>  has been corrected.
>>>
>>>  Expecting a (hopefully small and final) reroll.
>>>  cf. <CAOLa=ZQ-O7V9qHbgeuQ78R1bHGDmGEM6fP5Kr9aC0AfvSF8MZA@mail.gmail.com>
>>>  source: <20251121-fix-tags-not-fetching-v8-0-23b53a8a8334@gmail.com>
>>
>> The only change needed from the last review was a typo. I think we should be
>> good as is.
>
> Meaning that we prefer to leave the typo in, or just we won't die
> with a known typo?

The typo was in a comment in the tests, so I thought it wasn't worth re-rolling, but happy to do so.

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  2. Karthik NayakDec 9, 2025
  3. Junio C HamanoDec 9, 2025
  4. Karthik NayakDec 10, 2025
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