Re: [PATCH] Also handle CVS branches with a '/' in their name

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Aug 17, 2005, 07:09 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0508170906480.10754@wgmdd8.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vk6il11wi.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > I track a CVS project which has a branch with a '/' in the branch name.
> > Since git wants the branch name to be a file name at the same time,
> > translate that character to a '-'. This should work well, despite the
> > fact that a division and a difference are completely different :-)
> 
> My feeling is that there should be nothing to prevent you from
> having a non-flat namespace in .git/refs/heads; i.e. we should
> allow ".git/refs/heads/foo/bar".

That may be true, but CVS branches being named "Hänsel/Gretel" do not logically denote hierarchies. I never ever saw hierarchical CVS branch names with a "/" separator. I saw some with a "." separator.

My feeling is that it would be wrong to map CVS branch names to a hierarchy.

Ciao, Dscho