From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 21:55:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] transport.c: introduce core.alternateRefsPrefixes
Message-ID: <xmqqva6ur24y.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180924205022.GA26936@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Do you have an opinion on whether for_each_alternate_refs() interface
> should stop passing back refnames? By the "they may not even exist"
> rationale in this sub-thread, I think it's probably foolish for any
> caller to actually depend on the names being meaningful.

I personally do not mind they were all ".have" or unnamed.

The primary motivatgion behind for-each-alternate-refs was that we
wanted to find more anchoring points to help the common ancestry
negotiation and for-each-*-ref was the obvious way to do so; the
user did not care anything about names.