# nesting refs (Re: [1.8.0] Provide proper remote ref namespaces) 1 messages from 2011-02-05 to 2011-02-05. Participants: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/26415 ## Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy, 2011-02-05 04:30 Subject: nesting refs (Re: [1.8.0] Provide proper remote ref namespaces) Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/AANLkTin%2BVLTf62NHSdAb61qEckrsLMg%2Bs-hnWHb0HLna%40mail.gmail.com ``` On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 5:39 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > While you are talking about drastic reorganization (and rewriting the ref > code to support it), another possible Sub-proposal we may want to consider > is to allow "next" and "next/foo" at the same time. Oh yeah.. how about "next/.ref" and "next/foo/.ref"? Ref search code can be modified to check both "next" and "next/.ref" when "next" is requested. Old git basically won't work with new ref style, so there's not much compatibility issue. We can also add "next/.summary" to save a brief description of a ref. But then it would be lost in packed-refs, hm.. -- Duy ```