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Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] Implement ref namespaces as a ref storage backend

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 15, 2017, 17:13 UTC
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Richard Maw <richard.maw@gmail.com> writes:
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> This is not my first attempt to improve the git namespace handling in git.
> I tried last year, but it took me so long that all the ref handling code changed
> and I would have had to start from scratch.
>
> Fortunately the pluggable ref backends work provided an easier starting point.

Yeah, I also made an ultra-brief foray into ref backends a few weeks ago, and found that Michael did an excellent job identifying the building blocks backends may want to implement differently and abstracting out major parts of the ref processing. I also hit some of the same issues you mention, e.g. "HEAD" and other funny refs.

I do suspect that the current GIT_NAMESPACE thing may have outlived its usefulness and with the pluggable ref backend thing in place, we may want to redesign how support for multiple views into the same repository is done. I do not have a need for such a thing myself, but I am glad somebody is looking into it ;-)

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Message 10 of 13 in “Implement ref namespaces as a ref storage backend”
  1. 0/7 Implement ref namespaces as a ref storage backendRichard Maw, Aug 13, 2017
  2. 1/7 Expose expand_namespace APIRichard Maw, Aug 13, 2017
  3. 2/7 Add git_configset_add_standardRichard Maw, Aug 13, 2017
  4. 3/7 Add helper for skipping namespace prefixesRichard Maw, Aug 13, 2017
  5. 4/7 Autocreate reflogs for namespaced refsRichard Maw, Aug 13, 2017
  6. 5/7 Treat namespaced HEAD and refs/bisect as per-worktreeRichard Maw, Aug 13, 2017
  7. 6/7 Add namespaced ref backendRichard Maw, Aug 13, 2017
  8. 7/7 Plumb in namespaced ref storeRichard Maw, Aug 13, 2017
  9. Stefan BellerAug 14, 2017
  10. Junio C HamanoAug 15, 2017
  11. Richard MawAug 24, 2017
  12. Michael HaggertyAug 24, 2017
  13. Richard MawAug 30, 2017

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