Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] remote-helpers: move out of contrib

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Apr 23, 2014, 21:30 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq4n1jybqx.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <535829dd861b1_24448772ece1@nysa.notmuch>

Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:

> The very unlikely issue that nobody has reported about hg multiple heads and gc
> I just fixed, and the issue he just reported about 'foo' and 'foo/bar' is newly
> reported, and there's no easy way to fix this.

I would not judge on likelyhood, but I would say that 'foo' vs 'foo/bar' is something that falls into the same category as "if you want your project to be cross-platform, don't have paths Foo and foo both tracked, as some people have to work on case insensitive systems".

In other words, I think it is perfectly fine as long as the users are made aware of these issues. One way to deal with such a project may be to allow users to map 'foo' to 'foo_' to make room for 'foo/bar', but lack of such a feature is not grave enough to block it from being used---it would be unreasonable to demand the ref mapping to be implemented before the command is given to the end users.