Re: [RFC/PATCH] git-remote-mediawiki: reset private ref after non-dumb push

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 25, 2013, 03:50 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq61uumnsz.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <vpq8uzr5y4v.fsf@anie.imag.fr>

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:

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> How would I do that? The update to the remote namespace is done by Git,
> not by the remote-helper.
>
> OK, I'm now convinced that my solution is the right one. The
> alternatives are far more complex and I still fail to see the benefits.

Sounds like a plan, even though it smells like the "update is done by Git" that does not have any way to opt-out may be the real design mistake and your "solution" is a work-around to that.

Would it be a possibility to make it tunable, perhaps by introducing a capability on the remote-interface side that allows you to tell it not to mess with the remote namespace? If we were doing this from scratch, I would suspect that we would have made the capability work the other way around (Git does not do the update by default, but helpers c an ask Git to do so).