From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 23:54:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] t/t3308-notes-merge.sh: succeed with relaxed notes refs
Message-ID: <xmqqoaqbmpmj.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <A5A16FEC-D72C-4B21-8BE1-3A41696DFF49@gmail.com>

"Kyle J. McKay" <mackyle@gmail.com> writes:

> A whitelist solves issue (1) but is no help for issue (2) unless some
> additional additional part of the refs namespace were to be also
> whitelisted.  Perhaps something like refs/x-<anything>/... in the same
> vein as the various IETF standards for experimental names.

Your (2) is about people who are _experimenting_, no?

Why can't they use refs/notes/x-<anything>/* while doing so, and
when that matures and proves useful to wider public we can make it
more official by whitelisting refs/<that-thing> in addition to
refs/notes/, and the problem is solved, no?