From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 15:16:02 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow to control the namespace for replace refs Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20150611051339.GA3637@glandium.org> Mike Hommey writes: > I do agree that this is all confusing, but allow me to point out that > it's already plenty confusing: "namespace" is a term that has been used to > designate a generic kind of namespace *and* refs/namespaces. See for > example: > > https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/git-describe.txt#L39 > https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/git-fetch.txt#L113 > https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt#L36 > (note how this one is specifically about refs/replace/) > there are many more. "One more breakage does not hurt" is not something we want to see. > _REF kind of implies _one_ specific ref.... I thought about suggesting GIT_REPLACE_REFS for that exact reason, but decided against it, because (1) if you are using replace, then you know you are not using a single ref but a group of refs in a single hierarchy already, and (2) if you do not know what replace and notes are, GIT_REPLACE_REFS and GIT_NOTES_REF look just being inconsistent (even though the intention of the difference is to be more logical). s/S/_BASE/ would make that better, though. > As for exposing a pref, I'm not entirely sure it makes sense to. I don't see an immediate need for it, and it is easy to add later, so let's limit the scope of the initial adoption of the feature. Thanks.