Re: [PATCH 2/5] refs: make `is_pseudoref_syntax()` stricter

From: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Date: Mar 21, 2024, 13:09 UTC
Message-ID: <ZfwxdiF2RPS23zAl@tanuki>
In-Reply-To: <CAFJh0PSRrz=WYvuXgFGER6_E5qshVKSWNxBDgVo6GcCGfFDK8A@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 11:05:41AM +0100, eugenio gigante wrote:

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> On Wed, 24 Jan 2024 09:51:52 +0100 Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> wrote:
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> > We also have consider that there may be alternate implementations of Git
> > that would only know to handle the old layout. Those tools would be
> > broken in case we did such a migration, but they would be broken anyway
> > if the bisect was started via Git and not via the tool.
> 
> The first implementations that come to my mind are Jgit and libgit2.
> I took a look at these two and apparently there is no support for git-bisect.
> Maybe you are not referring to those.

I'm basically referring to everything that has wider use out there and that knows to access Git repositories. I don't know about all the implementations out there and whether they do or don't support bisections. If they don't then this is great, because it makes it a ton easier for us to argue why the proposed refactoring is okay to do.

> Also, do we care about several GUIs for git?

Many users do use graphical frontends, so we likely should investigate how they'd behave, yes.

Patrick